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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

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I tend to read non-fiction.

~Gary Oldman

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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

~Gary Oldman

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

~Gary Oldman

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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.

~Gary Oldman

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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

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I just think political correctness is crap.

~Gary Oldman

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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

~Gary Oldman

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Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

~Gary Oldman

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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.

~Gary Oldman

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: March 21st, 1958

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