I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.
GARY OLDMANI got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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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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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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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.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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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 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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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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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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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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