Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the trut…

- Gary Oldman

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

- Gary Oldman

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

- 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

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

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, especiall…

- 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

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

- Gary Oldman

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

- Gary Oldman