My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
GARY OLDMANEach 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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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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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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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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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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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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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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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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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Well, I needed the work – that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
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