We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.
GARY OLDMANMy favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can’t beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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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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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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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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To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.
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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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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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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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As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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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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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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