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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• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn’t hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  Gary Oldman

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• I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they’re older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

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

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Sobriety, Hardest, Thing

• I didn’t do drugs. It wasn’t my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it’s like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Coping, Mechanism, Drugs

• I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Self, Perception, Playing

• How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Director

• I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy – that is a miracle in itself.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Game, Boy, Miracle

• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

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• At 23 it was all about acting. Today it’s getting my kids to school, making sure that they’ve done their homework. I’m in my fifties, and I’m turning into a square. I saw a kid walk into a restaurant the other day and his belt was below his backside. I would have turned him away.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Familiar, Acting

• But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Self, Played, Villains

• And of course I’ve got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I’m now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You’re suddenly hip.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Harry Potter

• I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don’t drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. ‘Nil By Mouth’ was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Myself, Familiar

• 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

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  Tags in Childhood, Remembering

• 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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• 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

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

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Comics, Fan

• I don’t go to premieres. I don’t go to parties. I don’t covet the Oscar. I don’t want any of that. I don’t go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that’s a whole other career. And I haven’t got any energy for it.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Self, Oscar, Premiere

• 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

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Harry Potter, Books

• I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in ‘Batman 2’.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Movie, Reasons

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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