You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
GARY OLDMANAny actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There’s that period in the late ’90s, the early 2000s, where I didn’t do a great deal.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.
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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That’s the magic of it to me.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you’re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
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Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don’t want to travel; I don’t want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
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The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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