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.
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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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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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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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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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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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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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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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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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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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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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
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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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