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Gary Oldman

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.
GARY OLDMAN

Children Love Mom Myself Raise Sister
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
GARY OLDMAN

Decay Museum Myself Reality Social
How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
GARY OLDMAN

Director Fingers Hand Movie Myself
Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
GARY OLDMAN

Play Writing Yourself
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
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Children Hard Important Life Myself Sober
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 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.
GARY OLDMAN

Aware Book Children Myself Small Store
I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
GARY OLDMAN

Fashion Myself Old Reality
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
GARY OLDMAN

Bad Family Goodness Justice Movie Myself Theme Value Wrong
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
GARY OLDMAN

Director Goodness Silence Time
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Comedy Hollywood Myself Name Pretty Romantic Thinking
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
I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
GARY OLDMAN

Capability Lying Myself Terrible
Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
GARY OLDMAN

Actor Movie People Play Yourself
There are roles that you chase sometimes.
GARY OLDMAN

Chase Effort Inspirational Opportunity Role Time Yourself

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