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.
GARY OLDMANI like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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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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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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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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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 applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
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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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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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You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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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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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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