Latest Gary Oldman Quotes from Interviews

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• As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.

  Gary Oldman

  Focus, Attention, Ability

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Impressionists have to paint with a very broad stroke because you've got to see it within a couple of seconds. You go, "That's a really funny Robert De Niro." As an actor, though, you look at different aspects of a character. I try to completely surround myself with the assignment. It's like being in a big cloud and then some of it rains through.

  Gary Oldman

  Couple, Rain, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The work I enjoy is when the camera rolls, and I like the work in the moment.

  Gary Oldman

  Moments, Enjoy

  Source: film.avclub.com

• There are roles that you chase sometimes.

  Gary Oldman

  Sometimes

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Each role you play, they set a bar of challenges that you meet. And in the past, I've played characters that emotionally expressed themselves a bit more in a physical way. It was a joy, actually.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Past, Joy

  Source: film.avclub.com

• The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the character.

  Gary Oldman

  Book, Character, World

  Source: film.avclub.com

• The script is your map of the world, isn't it? And if someone knows that if it's well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.

  Gary Oldman

  Scripts, Needs, World

  "Interview: Gary Oldman And Morgan Freeman" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 9, 2005.

• I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.

  Gary Oldman

  Years, Police, Chicago

  Source: www.chud.com

• Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

  Gary Oldman

  Knowing, Directors, Sometimes

  "Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman for 'Batman Begins'". Interview with Garth Franklin, www.darkhorizons.com. June 14, 2005.

• Sometimes directors feel like they have to justify that hat that they are wearing they've got on as a director, and they come in and they tweak and interfere.

  Gary Oldman

  Hats, Directors, Sometimes

  "Interview: Gary Oldman And Morgan Freeman" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 9, 2005.

• You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

  Gary Oldman

  Fall, Inspiration, Cloaks

  Interview With Randy Sue Coburn, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

• I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.

  Gary Oldman

  Thinking, Directors, Talent

  Interview With Randy Sue Coburn, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

• When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if it's reading. That is where you have a director, who is the barometer of what you are doing.

  Gary Oldman

  Reading, Character, Play

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Country, Airplane, Differences

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• The great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you're working with someone who's in it, and you've been there and done it, but you're not in it anymore, you feel so good.

  Gary Oldman

  Done, Stuff, Great Things

  Source: collider.com

• The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.

  Gary Oldman

  Google, Ends, Peter

  Source: collider.com