Gary Oldman

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

— Gary Oldman

The script is your map of the world, isn't it? And if someone knows that if it's well-written, you get all of…

— Gary Oldman

There are roles that you chase sometimes.

— Gary Oldman

Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I…

— Gary Oldman

I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be…

— Gary Oldman

I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers…

— Gary Oldman

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out…

— Gary Oldman

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

— Gary Oldman

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…

— Gary Oldman

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name…

— Gary Oldman

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

— Gary Oldman

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

— Gary Oldman

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took…

— Gary Oldman

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think…

— Gary Oldman

I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a…

— Gary Oldman

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…

— Gary Oldman

To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking…

— Gary Oldman

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer…

— Gary Oldman

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…

— Gary Oldman

I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

— Gary Oldman

The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank…

— Gary Oldman

As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.

— Gary Oldman

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of…

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I'm playing the man with no face. So we just had a bit of fun with it. We thought it would be…

— Gary Oldman

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little…

— Gary Oldman