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.
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 still don’t have a publicist. If I’m in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I’ll do as much as I can.
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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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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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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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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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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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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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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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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.
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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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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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