Gary Oldman Quotes

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• You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Color, Sock

  "Gary Oldman: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2011.

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• What other people think of me is none of my business.

  Gary Oldman

  Trust No One, Thinking, People

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• Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

  Gary Oldman

  Play, People, Actors

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• I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Silence, Loud

  "Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2012.

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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.

  Gary Oldman

  Not Good Enough, Acting, Actors

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• My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

  Gary Oldman

  Anger, Passion, Acting

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• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  Gary Oldman

  Morning, Sunday, Eggs

  "Gary Oldman on life, the universe, and everything". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

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• Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

  Gary Oldman

  Reality, Museums, Decay

  "Playboy Interview: Gary Oldman". Interview with David Hochman, June 25, 2014.

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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.

  Gary Oldman

  Dry Up, Behaviour, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven

  Gary Oldman

  Storm, Littles, Calm

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• Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

  Gary Oldman

  Political, Political Correctness, Correctness

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• We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

  Gary Oldman

  Code Of Ethics, Given, Live By

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

  Gary Oldman

  Men, Stronger

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• You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

  Gary Oldman

  Fall, Inspiration, Cloaks

  Interview With Randy Sue Coburn, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.

  Gary Oldman

  Lines, Remember, Forget

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• People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

  Gary Oldman

  Careers, Ideas, People

  "Batman Begins - Gary Oldman interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

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  Children, Drawing, Car

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• To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

  Gary Oldman

  Jobs, Men, Ego

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

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  Inspirational, Children, Recovery

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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.

  Gary Oldman

  Guitar, Would Be, Fetch

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• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  Gary Oldman

  Ordinary, Normal, Certain

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• 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. Look at me. I mean, when I’m naked, I look like a bald chicken. How did I get to be a scary bad guy?

  Gary Oldman

  Crazy, Mean, Past

  "Gary Oldman likes being the good guy". www.today.com. July 15, 2008.

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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.

  Gary Oldman

  Drama, School, Giving

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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.

  Gary Oldman

  Self Esteem, Recovery, Pride

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• Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

  Gary Oldman

  Knowing, Directors, Sometimes

  "Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman for 'Batman Begins'". Interview with Garth Franklin, www.darkhorizons.com. June 14, 2005.

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