As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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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 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 like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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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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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.
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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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