At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
GARY OLDMANI want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in ‘Batman 2’.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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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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So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
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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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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.
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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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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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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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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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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 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 applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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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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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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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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