168 Quotes by Gary Oldman

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.

If you constantly pander to the wishes of others, you will never accomplish a thing.

If you constantly pander to the wishes of others, you will never accomplish anything.

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

At the Oscars, if you didnt vote for 12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.

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.