Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
GARY OLDMANI went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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On set I keep myself to myself; I’d rather the director speak up. I’m not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
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You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.
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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 know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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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 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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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 got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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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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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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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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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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Each role you play, they set a bar of challenges that you meet. And in the past, I’ve played characters that emotionally expressed themselves a bit more in a physical way. It was a joy, actually.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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Getting 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.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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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.
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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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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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