Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
GARY OLDMANI 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.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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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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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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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 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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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient.
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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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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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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