You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
GARY OLDMANMy big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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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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I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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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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