Gary Oldman Quotes

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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…
• Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
• At the Oscars, if you didnt vote for 12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.
• I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.
• Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
• By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out…
• I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven
• 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…
• I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy - that is a miracle in itself.
• I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out.…
• Whats fascinating is that when you write a script, its almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but youre…
• To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.
• In the past, I’ve had my share of good reviews, but it’s always the crazy, scary, weirdo guy. I don’t even know how it happened.…
• 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…
• To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.
• It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books.…
• How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
• We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.
• 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,…
• 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.…

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