Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
GARY OLDMANMy big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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 want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in ‘Batman 2’.
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We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.
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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
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So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
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The script is your map of the world, isn’t it? And if someone knows that if it’s well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.
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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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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 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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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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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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