A biography for Gary Oldmanhasn’t been written yet.
“I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.”
“Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.”
“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.”
“Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.”
“You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.”
“If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.”
“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.”
“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.”