To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
GARY OLDMANTo be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
GARY OLDMANWe’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.
GARY OLDMANGetting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
GARY OLDMANInteresting 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 OLDMANI know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
GARY OLDMANI 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 OLDMANBut you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
GARY OLDMANRather 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 OLDMANI drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.
GARY OLDMANPolitical correctness has become a straightjacket.
GARY OLDMANI wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
GARY OLDMANChange 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.
GARY OLDMANYou always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
GARY OLDMANI 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 OLDMANGrowing 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 OLDMANThe great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you’re working with someone who’s in it, and you’ve been there and done it, but you’re not in it anymore, you feel so good.
GARY OLDMAN