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" I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that. "
Gary Oldman
Best
Got
Great
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" 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. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it. "
Gary Oldman
Dinner
Night
Home
" 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
Tea
Easy
Good
" I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills. "
Gary Oldman
Thought
Money
Earn
" 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
Now
Plastic
Imagine
" I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done. "
Gary Oldman
Me
Realize
More
" 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
Football
Children
Good
" Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men. "
Gary Oldman
Than
Stronger
Women
" 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
People
Control
Career
" I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch. "
Gary Oldman
Cheese
Lunch
Bread
" I tend to read non-fiction. "
Gary Oldman
Non-Fiction
Tend
Read
" I just think political correctness is crap. "
Gary Oldman
Political
Political Correctness
Think
" I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know? "
Gary Oldman
Kids
Comics
You
" Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. "
Gary Oldman
Me
Museum
Reality
" I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. "
Gary Oldman
Incapable
Terrible
Spy
" Political correctness has become a straightjacket. "
Gary Oldman
Political
Political Correctness
Become
" I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself. "
Gary Oldman
Away
Kid
Miracle
" 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
Character
Play
You
" 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
Walk
Parent
Coffee
" My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music. "
Gary Oldman
Love
Beatles
More
" At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. "
Gary Oldman
Acting
Done
Homework
" 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
Anger
Love
Father
" There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened. "
Gary Oldman
Always
Will
Us
" I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved. "
Gary Oldman
Child
Young
Me
" 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. "
Gary Oldman
Publicist
Film
I Can
" As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits. "
Gary Oldman
Drama
Suits
Student
" 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
California
City
Down
" I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him. "
Gary Oldman
Heart
Loved
Him
" 'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad. "
Gary Oldman
Time
Always
Bit
" Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice. "
Gary Oldman
Values
Justice
Good
" 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
Good
You