I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
GARY OLDMANSo 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.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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 like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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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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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 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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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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I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they’re older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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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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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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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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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’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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