Quotes by Gary Oldman - Page 3

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 occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Barometer
Film Set
Finding Yourself
Justify
Knowing
Occasions
Trying
Good Yourself Your
Director
Good Director
Wearing
Hat
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It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Angle
Becoming
Harder
Independent
Independent Film
Old Days
Want
Budget
Increasingly
Sales
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I don't see a great difference between someone sending a robot or a drone to bomb people and controlling it on a PlayStation from another country. It's thousands of miles away as opposed to someone in an airplane who is thousands of feet away releasing a bomb.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Airplane
Country
Differences
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Blessing
Decided
Drama
Scholarship
Mom Me Way
Mom Me Living
Drama School
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Character
Giving
Intuition
Register
Scene
Teach
Apart
Notice
Putting
Sets
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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. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Book
Communion
Ideas
Reader
Reading
Always Black People
Black People Will
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Behavior
Hollywood
Monsters
Nonsense
Respectful
Factory
Irritates
Service
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Oscars
Slave
Views
Fascist
Opinions
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
Gary Oldman / Actor
Parenting
Clean
Coffee
Fine
Paint
Parent
Fine Line
Gonna
Handbook
Walk
Line
Point
Raw
Table
Tip
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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.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Car
Children
Drawing
Hours
Loner
Nine
Pencils
Planes
Quiet
Racing
Rockets
Always Me Children
Car Always Me
Crayons
Fast
Gave
Hear
Straight
Room
Racing Cars
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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 is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.
Gary Oldman / Actor
California
Cities
Disease
Landmarks
Shame
Strange
Years
City
Demolished
Particularly
Town
Replace
Sprawling
Suburb
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Beach
Caribbean
Children
Fabulous
Football
Good Way
Roles
Good Great Football
Comfortably
Earn
Extremely
Play Football
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Kids
Music
Bowie
Boys
Brown
Eclectic
Grew
Listening
London
Pants
Shops
Soul
Suits
Taste
Used
Had
Also
Time Music Soul
Boy
Bit
Time Music Listening
Chopin
Wear
James
Neighbourhood
Tonic
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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 at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Anger
Jobs
Drank
Drink
Father
Good Job
Loss
Needed
Order
Resolve
Love Good Myself
Anymore
Beating
Forgive
Head
Letter
Mouth
Nil
Occasionally
Says
Took
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Impressionists have to paint with a very broad stroke because you've got to see it within a couple of seconds. You go, "That's a really funny Robert De Niro." As an actor, though, you look at different aspects of a character. I try to completely surround myself with the assignment. It's like being in a big cloud and then some of it rains through.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Character
Couple
Rain
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One of my career ambitions was fulfilled working with John [Hurt]. I loved his work long before I ever had the idea of being an actor, so I was nervous to meet him. I was like a fanboy, like that annoying character on 'Saturday Night Live'. I'm sitting there. 'Do you remember when you were in 'Midnight Express'? Remember that scene you were in?' And he doesn't disappoint.
Gary Oldman / Actor
Ambition
Character
Hurt
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