Gary Oldman Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Realization, London

• I hadn’t worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Self

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

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Classical, Music

• I’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Science Fiction, Fan

• 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.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, British, Accent

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

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Musician

• Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don’t want to travel; I don’t want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Lifestyle

• I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Father, Love

  Tags in Self

• Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Actor

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Independent, Film, Budget

• So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Harry Potter, London

• People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Career, Control

• My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Passion

• My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self -Love, Music

• ‘Nil By Mouth’ was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that’s not my dad.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Autobiography

• People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Imagination, Actors

• There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn’t have got Osama bin Laden – it took us years, but it happened.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terrorist

• People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actor, Romantic, Comedy

• 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.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Courage, Compassion

• Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shakespeare

Gary Oldman (44)

Birth:	21st March, 1958
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Gary Leonard Oldman is an English screen and stage actor, filmmaker and musician. He rose to prominence in Britain after playing Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy, and Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears, for which he received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor nomination; those performances led pre-eminent film critic Roger Ebert to describe Oldman as "the best young British actor around".

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• 1990 - Robert Hofstadter
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