What other people think of me is none of my business.
GARY OLDMANTo be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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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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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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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Well, I needed the work – that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
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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 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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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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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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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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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 like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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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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