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I don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

Gary Oldman

I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
GARY OLDMAN

Man Myself Play Rare Room Smart
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Couple Honesty Money Myself Need Work
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Father Goodness Job Loss Myself Time
At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
GARY OLDMAN

Music Oscar Race Vote Yourself
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Aware Book Children Myself Small Store
I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
GARY OLDMAN

Character Enjoyment Loud Play Silence
The great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you’re working with someone who’s in it, and you’ve been there and done it, but you’re not in it anymore, you feel so good.
GARY OLDMAN

Feeling Goodness Great Make Up Work Yourself
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
GARY OLDMAN

Interest Myself Preference
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Breathe Gate Magic Movie Myself Projection Way
The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I’ve got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they’d ask ‘And who’s the girl?’ Just one famous face isn’t enough any more.
GARY OLDMAN

Change Company Creation Enough Face Famous Industry Movie Myself
How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
GARY OLDMAN

Forget Line Myself Remember Yourself
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Death Dedication Father Head Himself I Love You Issues Movie Regret
Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
GARY OLDMAN

Correct Jacket Political
As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
GARY OLDMAN

Drama Myself Student
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Impossible Old Play Point Weight Younger Yourself
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’.
GARY OLDMAN

Children Goodness Myself Reason

I don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

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I don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

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