I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
GARY OLDMANIt’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.
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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 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.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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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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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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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they’re older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
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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.
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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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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’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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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