Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
GARY OLDMANYou always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.
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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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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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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you’re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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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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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
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I still don’t have a publicist. If I’m in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I’ll do as much as I can.
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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’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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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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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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