Each role you play, they set a bar of challenges that you meet. And in the past, I’ve played characters that emotionally expressed themselves a bit more in a physical way. It was a joy, actually.
GARY OLDMANGrowing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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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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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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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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I still don’t have a publicist. If I’m in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I’ll do as much as I can.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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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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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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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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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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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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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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