Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
GARY OLDMANOverall 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’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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The great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you’re working with someone who’s in it, and you’ve been there and done it, but you’re not in it anymore, you feel so good.
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I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in ‘Batman 2’.
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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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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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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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I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That’s the magic of it to me.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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