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Gary Oldman

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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Building Democracy Fair Jewel Mistake Nation Share World
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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Age Children Myself Right Thrill
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.
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Death Dedication Father Head Himself I Love You Issues Movie Regret
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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Director Freedom Myself Rare Talent Wonderful
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.
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Change Company Creation Enough Face Famous Industry Movie Myself
The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.
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Google Resource Type
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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Impossible Old Play Point Weight Younger Yourself
What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Business Myself People Thinking
Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Play Writing Yourself
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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Actor Movie People Play Yourself
At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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Music Oscar Race Vote Yourself
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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Actor Different Imagination Offering People Yourself
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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Bad Family Goodness Justice Movie Myself Theme Value Wrong
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you’re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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Actor Behavior Change Human Play Truth Vehicle
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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Goodness Play See Yourself
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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Calm Moments Myself Reminder Storm

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