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.
GARY OLDMANI went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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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’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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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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 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.
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I don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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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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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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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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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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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 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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