Gary Oldman /Gary Leonard Oldman/ quotes His role in 'Sid and Nancy' (1986) Born: 03/21/1958 Country: united_kingdom

• But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains. (Gary Oldman) [more/villains]
• 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) [family/money/give/give]
• 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) [director/film]
• I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy - that is a miracle in itself. (Gary Oldman) [take]
• I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. (Gary Oldman) [music]
• 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)
• 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) [nice/money]
• 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) [books]
• I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him. (Gary Oldman) [film]
• I suddenly got obsessive about boxing and Muhammad Ali around the time he was fighting Joe Frazier. I went off and did boxing. I looked incredibly good in the gym. (Gary Oldman) [boxing/time/boxing]
• I used to like Batman when I was a kid. I was about five years old and my mum had a 1960s belt - remember those wide belts - and I stuck packets of cigarettes to it and painted it yellow and that was my utility belt. And I had a sheet from crepe paper and a mask and that was it. (Gary Oldman) [remember/paper]
• I wanted to tell this specific story more than I wanted to throw a camera around. (Gary Oldman) [more]
• 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. (Gary Oldman) [mother/child]
• I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know? (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 and space costumes, things like that. (Gary Oldman)
• If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. (Gary Oldman) [wish/life]
• 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) [lifestyle/changes/family]
• 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) [people/movie/reading/books]
• 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) [thing/film/amount/budget]
• My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music. (Gary Oldman) [love/more/music]
• 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. (Gary Oldman) [people/control/career/more]
• 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) [people/actors/being/meeting]
• 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) [movie/family/courage/compassion]
• Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. (Gary Oldman)
• 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. (Gary Oldman) [nice/right/age]
• Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men. (Gary Oldman) [find/women/men]
• The film follows very much in the tradition of social realism, because I wanted to see a subject like this tackled with honesty. (Gary Oldman) [film/tradition/honesty]
• These were people who came from a real drinking culture, where your passport to manhood was that, at fourteen or fifteen, you go to the pub, drink beer, play darts, tell sexist, racist jokes. You've got to be homophobic - all that. You've got to be that guy at the bar. (Gary Oldman) [people/culture//beer]
• To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego. (Gary Oldman) [ego]
• To be honest, I'm a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around. (Gary Oldman) [bad]
• 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)

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