How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
GARY OLDMANAs a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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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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I’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like 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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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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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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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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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 got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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