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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

Gary Oldman

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.
GARY OLDMAN

Break Character Cry Knowledge Prism Yourself
I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
GARY OLDMAN

Capability Lying Myself Terrible
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Breathe Gate Magic Movie Myself Projection Way
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’.
GARY OLDMAN

Children Goodness Myself Reason
To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
GARY OLDMAN

Character Job Place Profession Requirement Yourself
People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
GARY OLDMAN

Comedy Exploitation Humor Love Myself People Romance
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Bar Challenge Emotional Expression Happiness Joy Myself Play Role
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
GARY OLDMAN

Big Love Music Myself
At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
GARY OLDMAN

Music Oscar Race Vote Yourself
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Director Freedom Myself Rare Talent Wonderful
The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I’ve got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they’d ask ‘And who’s the girl?’ Just one famous face isn’t enough any more.
GARY OLDMAN

Change Company Creation Enough Face Famous Industry Movie Myself
How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
GARY OLDMAN

Director Fingers Hand Movie Myself
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
GARY OLDMAN

Angry Class Family Growth Work Yourself
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
GARY OLDMAN

Interest Myself Preference
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Actor Different Imagination Offering People Yourself
I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
GARY OLDMAN

Children Comic Fan Huge Myself

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