Gary Oldman Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 truths of human behaviour.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”