My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
GARY OLDMANI got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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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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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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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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The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient.
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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.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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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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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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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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The script is your map of the world, isn’t it? And if someone knows that if it’s well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.
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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.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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