Explore Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

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

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

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

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.

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'.

I tend to read non-fiction.

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

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

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

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.

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