#u

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#enjoy #i #loud #playing #silence

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

— Gary Oldman

#classical #classical music #got #i #music

I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#bit #bowie #boy #brown #chopin

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 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. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#any #calls #done #drinking #end

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. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#books #buses #everywhere #harry #harry potter

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

— Gary Oldman

#cheese #i #like #lunch #nice

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#celluloid #film #gate #i #like

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. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#i #i can #much #obligation #promote

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#bit #deal #early #focus #great