Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
GARY OLDMANI’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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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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People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can’t shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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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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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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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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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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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.
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