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

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" 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 example works best, actually. "

" I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know? "

" I tend to read non-fiction. "

" Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line. "

" 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. "

" I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills. "

" 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. "

" As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits. "

" My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music. "

" 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. "

" My passion and energy get mistaken for anger. "

" I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown. "

" 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. "

" I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself. "

" 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 can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine. "

" It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing. "

" A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over. "

" 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. "

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" 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'. "