I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
GARY OLDMANYou 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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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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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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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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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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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.
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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’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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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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We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.
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Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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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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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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