My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
GARY OLDMANPeople who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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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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The 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.
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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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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 never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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The script is your map of the world, isn’t it? And if someone knows that if it’s well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.
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We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.
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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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Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
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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 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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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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