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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.

Gary Oldman

It’s been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It’s the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.
GARY OLDMAN

Alcohol Description Life Loathe Low Perfection Pride Self Esteem
You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.
GARY OLDMAN

Break Character Cry Knowledge Prism Yourself
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
GARY OLDMAN

Actor Enough Goodness Greatness Yourself
I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
GARY OLDMAN

Character Enjoyment Loud Play Silence
I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.
GARY OLDMAN

Director Freedom Myself Rare Talent Wonderful
I’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
GARY OLDMAN

Audience Costume Greatness Myself Science Space
I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
GARY OLDMAN

Children Comic Fan Huge Myself
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Change Family Interest Life Myself Old Style Travel
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
GARY OLDMAN

Interest Myself Preference
I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
GARY OLDMAN

Death Dedication Father Head Himself I Love You Issues Movie Regret
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Children Deal Focus Greatness Myself Period Time
I still don’t have a publicist. If I’m in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I’ll do as much as I can.
GARY OLDMAN

Movie Myself Obligation Promote Public
The great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you’re working with someone who’s in it, and you’ve been there and done it, but you’re not in it anymore, you feel so good.
GARY OLDMAN

Feeling Goodness Great Make Up Work Yourself
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
GARY OLDMAN

Classical Music Myself Obsession Play
What other people think of me is none of my business.
GARY OLDMAN

Business Myself People Thinking
As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
GARY OLDMAN

Drama Myself Student

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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