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.
GARY OLDMANI’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
GARY OLDMANI think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.
GARY OLDMANPolitical correctness has become a straightjacket.
GARY OLDMANMy big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
GARY OLDMANI’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
GARY OLDMANThe 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.
GARY OLDMANYou 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.
GARY OLDMANWanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
GARY OLDMANI know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
GARY OLDMANThe 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.
GARY OLDMANReality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
GARY OLDMANBut you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
GARY OLDMANIf one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
GARY OLDMANI applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
GARY OLDMANWhat other people think of me is none of my business.
GARY OLDMANInteresting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don’t want to travel; I don’t want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
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