I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
GARY OLDMANAs a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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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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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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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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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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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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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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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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.
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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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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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You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.
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