Gary Oldman Quotes

• The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I’ve got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they’d ask ‘And who’s the girl?’ Just one famous face isn’t enough any more.

  Gary Oldman

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• Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director’s hat is only trying to justify his position.

  Gary Oldman

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• What’s fascinating is that when you write a script, it’s almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you’re not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

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• Well, I needed the work – that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

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• We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can’t understand why they don’t throw themselves off the balconies.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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

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  Tags in Courage, Compassion

• 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

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  Tags in Actor, Romantic, Comedy

• 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.

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  Tags in People, Imagination, Actors

• 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.

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  Tags in Self, Career, Control

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

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• My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

  Gary Oldman

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

  Gary Oldman

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• 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

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  Tags in Independent, Film, Budget

• It’s always hard when you’re playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There’s a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone’s idea of that.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Reader, Writer, Communion, Books

• 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

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  Tags in Lifestyle

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

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Musician

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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