168 Quotes by Gary Oldman

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.

I 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.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.