Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gary Oldman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: March 21
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
London
England
Gary Leonard Oldman
Head
Unresolved
Father
Dedicate
Felt
Fitting
Film
Swimming
Around
Died
Heart
Told
Way
Loved
Never
Issues

More quotes by Gary Oldman

Image
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
Gary Oldman
Image
To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.
Gary Oldman
Image
I don't see a great difference between someone sending a robot or a drone to bomb people and controlling it on a PlayStation from another country. It's thousands of miles away as opposed to someone in an airplane who is thousands of feet away releasing a bomb.
Gary Oldman
Image
I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
Gary Oldman
Image
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
Image
I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.
Gary Oldman
Image
I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
Gary Oldman
Image
I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
Gary Oldman
Image
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.
Gary Oldman
Image
And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
Gary Oldman
Image
To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.
Gary Oldman
Image
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
Gary Oldman
Image
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.
Gary Oldman
Image
I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
Gary Oldman
Image
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
Gary Oldman
Image
There are roles that you chase sometimes.
Gary Oldman
Image
At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.
Gary Oldman
Image
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.
Gary Oldman
Image
Getting 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 Oldman
Image
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'.
Gary Oldman