Gary Oldman quotes
Born
21 March 1958, New Cross, London, England.
Occupation
Actor.
Gary Oldman is an English actor.
Movies
Air Force One (1997)
Darkest Hour (2017)
Léon (1994)
Mank (2020)
The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)
I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
– Gary Oldman
Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
– Gary Oldman
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
– Gary Oldman
You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
– Gary Oldman
I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
– Gary Oldman
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
– Gary Oldman
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
– Gary Oldman
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
– Gary Oldman
I tend to read non-fiction.
– Gary Oldman
As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
– Gary Oldman
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
– Gary Oldman
What other people think of me is none of my business.
– Gary Oldman
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
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
– Gary Oldman
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
– Gary Oldman
I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
– Gary Oldman
I just think political correctness is crap.
– Gary Oldman
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
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.
– Gary Oldman
I can’t imagine childhood without ‘Planet of the Apes.’ I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
– Gary Oldman
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
– Gary Oldman
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
You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can’t shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
– Gary Oldman
I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, ‘It was 1860 and it was winter…’
– Gary Oldman
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
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
I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: ‘I’ve crossed oceans of time to find you.’ It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
– Gary Oldman
I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
– Gary Oldman
I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
– Gary Oldman
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
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
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can’t beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
– Gary Oldman
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
– Gary Oldman
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you’re writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don’t have to do it over.
– Gary Oldman
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
I don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
– Gary Oldman