I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
GARY OLDMANHow 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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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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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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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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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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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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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.
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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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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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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 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 went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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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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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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