Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
GARY OLDMANI know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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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.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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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 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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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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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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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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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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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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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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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
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