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The 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.

Gary Oldman

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
GARY OLDMAN

Character Choice Color Friendship Yourself
Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Play Writing Yourself
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Big Love Music Myself
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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Bar Challenge Emotional Expression Happiness Joy Myself Play Role
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
GARY OLDMAN

Man Myself Physical Spiritually Strong Woman
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
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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Impossible Old Play Point Weight Younger Yourself
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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Father Goodness Job Loss Myself Time
There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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Chase Effort Inspirational Opportunity Role Time Yourself
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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Actor Movie People Play Yourself
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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Career Control Ideas Mercy People Yourself
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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Calm Moments Myself Reminder Storm
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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Children Hard Important Life Myself Sober
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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Comedy Hollywood Myself Name Pretty Romantic Thinking
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Interest Myself Preference
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.
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Angry Class Family Growth Work Yourself
As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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Drama Myself Student
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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Director Goodness Silence Time
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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Collection Guitar Imagination Instrument Musician Old
At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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Music Oscar Race Vote Yourself
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Alcohol Description Life Loathe Low Perfection Pride Self Esteem
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Fashion Food Goodness Morning Myself Old Tea
I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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Academy Live Myself Place Police Study
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.
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Director Fingers Hand Movie Myself
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
GARY OLDMAN

Classical Music Myself Obsession Play
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Children Deal Focus Greatness Myself Period Time
I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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Man Myself Play Rare Room Smart

The 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.

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