Gary Oldman Quotes

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• I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
• I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s,…
• It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything…
• On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of…
• 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…
• If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
• My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
• Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a…
• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and…
• Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On…
• As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
• But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
• I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
• I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
• I tend to read non-fiction.
• 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'.
• I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
• I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
• 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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