I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
GARY OLDMANI drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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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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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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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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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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You 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.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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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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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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It’s been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It’s the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.
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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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