I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in ‘Batman 2’.
GARY OLDMANThe 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.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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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 applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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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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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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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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People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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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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