I guess what I`m trying to say is, it`s not Dracula crying, it`s Gary Oldman, but using the technique of the character. The emotion is mine, because I don`t know what it`s like to be undead and live 300 years.
With Beethoven (Immortal Beloved (1994)) I said I wanted a role where I didn`t have to do anything stupid with my hair. My agent said "Read it again!".
I used to be under the impression that in some kind of wanky, bullshit way, acting was like therapy: you get in and grapple with and exorcise all those demons inside of you. I don`t believe that anymore. It`s like a snow shaker. You shake the thing up, bu...
[on portraying famous people]: It`s a double-edged sword because, in one sense, you have a lot of material to work with, but in a strange kind of way, that puts up a framework that you have to keep within. You can`t play Beethoven with pink hair but, to a...
There`s an uncanny thing that chemically happens to you when you`re in the chronic stages of alcoholic drinking. I have been able, on occasions, to have two bottles of vodka and still be up talking to people. That got very frightening. By nature I`m an is...
I guess what I`m trying to say is, it`s not Dracula crying, it`s Gary Oldman, but using the technique of the character. The emotion is mine, because I don`t know what it`s like to be undead and live 300 years.
