I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
GARY OLDMANReality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
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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 rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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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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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
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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 like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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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 have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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