Gary Oldman

“It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of...”

“I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavi...”

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

“The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.”

“If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.”

“People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.”

“I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.”

“I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.”

“I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.”

“We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.”

“I tend to read non-fiction.”

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

“Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.”

“It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.”

“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.”

“Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.”

“I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.”

“I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.”

“There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.”

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