“I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Osca...” — Gary Oldman Quote

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.

There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

My show 'Fame: Not the Musical' is about the fact that fame is seen in two ways in our culture: either as a glittering bauble we desperately covet, or as a narrative of tragedy and despair. My own experience of fame is a third, mundane way, which often involves being mistaken for someone else - Ian Broudie from the Lightning Seeds, or Steve Wright.