Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
GARY OLDMANPolitical correctness has become a straightjacket.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can’t beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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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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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There’s that period in the late ’90s, the early 2000s, where I didn’t do a great deal.
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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 like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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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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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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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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Well, I needed the work – that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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