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'. Gary Oldman More Quotes by Gary Oldman More Quotes From Gary Oldman You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks. Gary Oldman weightplaylooks Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life. Gary Oldman normalcertainordinary Political correctness has become a straightjacket. Gary Oldman political-correctnesscorrectnesspolitical 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 not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you. Gary Oldman writingmeanideas To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego. Gary Oldman egojobsmen 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. Gary Oldman lossjobsfather 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 crazymeanpast 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. Gary Oldman cryplaycharacter 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 intuitiongivingcharacter 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 careerspeopleideas 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. That's the magic of it to me. Gary Oldman moviemagicactors When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if it's reading. That is where you have a director, who is the barometer of what you are doing. Gary Oldman readingplaycharacter Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something. Gary Oldman knowingsometimesdirectors What other people think of me is none of my business. Gary Oldman trust-no-onepeoplethinking And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip. Gary Oldman dadkidsschool So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling. Gary Oldman niceagekids 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 finding-yourselfknowingtrying Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men. Gary Oldman strongermen 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. Gary Oldman tiredfunlong At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist. Gary Oldman oscarsracistyears
