Oldman Quotes: top 58 famous quotes about Oldman

Oldman Quotes & Sayings

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To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego. — Gary Oldman

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains. — Gary Oldman

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room. — Gary Oldman

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. — 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

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music. — 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 think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent. — Gary Oldman

I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons. — Gary Oldman

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look ... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell. — Gary Oldman

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. — 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

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something. — Gary Oldman

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown. — Gary Oldman

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. — 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

If you constantly pander to the wishes of others, you will never accomplish anything. — Gary Oldman

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

I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties. — Gary Oldman

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

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

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts. — Sean Bean

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they're clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you. — Gary Oldman

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

ENGLISH: the ultimate body language. If not spoken by the English. — G.S. Oldman

I tend to read non-fiction. — Gary Oldman

I just think political correctness is crap. — Gary Oldman

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself. — Gary Oldman

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad. — Gary Oldman

Political correctness has become a straightjacket. — Gary Oldman

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically. — Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility. — Andrew-Lee Potts

If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal. — Shia Labeouf

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing. — Gary Oldman

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud. — 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 as I can. — 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

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men. — Gary Oldman

I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game. — Joel Kinnaman

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. — Kevin Bacon

How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else. — 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

There are a lot of actors whom I love, who personalize their work. I want to know everything about them, like De Niro, like Gary Oldman. — Kevin Corrigan

I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career ... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times! — Joel Kinnaman

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

O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!
Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me! — Toba Beta

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life. — Gary Oldman

I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy. — Gary Oldman

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

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me. — Gary Oldman

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. — Gary Oldman

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. — Gary Oldman

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

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there. — Gary Oldman

I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven — Gary Oldman

To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around. — Gary Oldman

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger. — Gary Oldman