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We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.
Gary Oldman
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Gary Oldman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: March 21
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Gary Leonard Oldman
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To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.
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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.
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I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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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.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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