Top 84 Quotes by Gary Oldman

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

I tend to read non-fiction.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

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.

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.