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

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" I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...' "

" 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 tend to read non-fiction. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. "

" 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.' "

" Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family. "

" Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. "

" Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that. "

Not Good Enough

" 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'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons. "

" People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. "

" I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies. "

" I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long. "