#no

And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#became #become #being #cool #course

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#back #call #coping #could #drank

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#classical #classical music #got #i #music

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

#collector #faces #fetch #guitar #had

I tend to read non-fiction. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#non-fiction #read #tend

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

— Gary Oldman

#been #could #i #john #john lennon

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

#anything #bit #california #city #demolished

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. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#angle #any #anymore #becoming #budget

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

— Gary Oldman

#been #funny #i #lifelong #musician

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

#another #apart #character #give #happen