Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
GARY OLDMANThe script is your map of the world, isn’t it? And if someone knows that if it’s well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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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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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they’re older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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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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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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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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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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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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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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The great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you’re working with someone who’s in it, and you’ve been there and done it, but you’re not in it anymore, you feel so good.
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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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