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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.

Gary Oldman

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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Character Enjoyment Loud Play Silence
As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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Drama Myself Student
I’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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Audience Costume Greatness Myself Science Space
Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Play Writing Yourself
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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Actor Behavior Change Human Play Truth Vehicle
Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don’t want to travel; I don’t want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
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Change Family Interest Life Myself Old Style Travel
The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.
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Google Resource Type
I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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Man Myself Play Rare Room Smart
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Classical Music Myself Obsession Play
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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Goodness Play See Yourself
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Interest Myself Preference
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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Actor Movie People Play Yourself
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Angry Class Family Growth Work Yourself
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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British Contamination Feeling Myself Time
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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Children Hard Important Life Myself Sober
I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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Crazy Man Myself Perception Play Weird
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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Director Goodness Silence Time
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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Ability Attention Focus Lose Observation People
My 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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Fashion Food Goodness Morning Myself Old Tea
What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Business Myself People Thinking
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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Age Children Myself Right Thrill
There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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Chase Effort Inspirational Opportunity Role Time Yourself
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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Father Goodness Job Loss Myself Time
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.
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Director Fingers Hand Movie Myself
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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Calm Moments Myself Reminder Storm
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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Actor Different Imagination Offering People Yourself
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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Movie Myself Obligation Promote Public

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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