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.
GARY OLDMANGetting 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.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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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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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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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
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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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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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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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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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Interesting 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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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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