Gary Leonard Oldman movie quotes

“Please tell the Privy Seal that I'm sealed in the privy and I can only deal with one shit at a time.”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill

“- Winston Churchill: Do I have your, uh, permission, uh, to send, uh, an aircraft carrier to pick up the P-40 fighter planes we purchased from you? Mr. President?
- President Roosevelt: Well, you-you've got me there again. New law preventing transshipment of military equipment.
- Winston Churchill: Uh, but we paid for them. We-we paid for them...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill
David Strathairn - President Roosevelt

“- King George VI: How do you manage drinking during the day?
- Winston Churchill: Practice.”
Ben Mendelsohn - King George VI
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill

“You're not a bad person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to. Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Sirius Black

“- Reese: They're trying to kill me!
- Lt. James Gordon: Well, maybe Batman will save you.”
Joshua Harto - Reese
Gary Leonard Oldman - Lt. James Gordon

“Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed...
[pushes the glass off the table. It shatter on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]
Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is...” (continue)(continue reading)

Gary Leonard Oldman - Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

“He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero.”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Lt. James Gordon

“Instead of letting you learn by breaking the rules, l feel l need to show you how to obey them. Tolerance. Tolerance for pain. My tolerance of you. But tolerance can be mistaken for kindness. And kindness can be mistaken for weakness. And we can't have weakness, can we, Henri?”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Milton Glenn

“You can not reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill

“Consciousness is nothing more than the processing of information.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Dr. Dennett Norton

“John Houseman-All I am saying is, no one can write like that.
Herman Mankiewicz-But I can write like that, Houseman. I have. The narrative is one big circle, like a cinnamon roll. Not a straight line pointing to the nearest exit. You cannot capture a man’s entire life in two hours. All you can hope is to leave the impression of one.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Herman Mankiewicz
Sam Troughton - John Houseman

John Houseman-The story is so scattered, I’m afraid one will need a road map.
Herman Mankiewicz-You mean it’s a mess.
John Houseman-Would you consider simplifying?
Herman Mankiewicz-As Pascal once said, “If only I’d had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Herman Mankiewicz
Sam Troughton - John Houseman

“Marion Davies-Pops, this is Herman Mankiewicz, but we have to call him Mank.
William Randolph Hearst-Mankiewicz? Herman Mankiewicz. New York playwright and drama critic?
Herman Mankiewicz-Turned humble screenwriter, Mr. Hearst.
William Randolph Hearst-Why, no need to be humble, Mr. Mankiewicz. Pictures that talk are the future. They’re going...” (continue)(continue reading)
Amanda Seyfried - Marion Davies
Charles Dance - William Randolph Hearst
Gary Leonard Oldman - Herman Mankiewicz

John Houseman-All in all, it’s a bit of a jumble.
Herman Mankiewicz-Did you say “jumble” or “jungle”?
John Houseman-A hodgepodge of talky episodes. A collection of fragments that leap around in time, like Mexican jumping beans.
Herman Mankiewicz-Welcome to my mind, Old Sock.

Sam Troughton - John Houseman
Gary Leonard Oldman - Herman Mankiewicz

“Tax evasion is a crime. But tax avoidance, that's what put us in business. And the line between the two, we like to say, it's as thin as a jailhouse wall.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Jürgen Mossack

“Some people believe that time is just an illusion. That all moments are the same moment.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Jürgen Mossack

“Bad? Bad is such a big word, for being such a small word.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Jürgen Mossack

“- President Roosevelt: Good night to you, Winston. It must be late there.
- Winston Churchill: In more ways than you could possibly know.”
David Strathairn - President Roosevelt
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill

“Will you stop interrupting me while I am interrupting you!”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill

“- Guildenstern: I don't believe in it anyway.
- Rosencrantz: What?
- Guildenstern: England.
- Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?”
Tim Roth - Guildenstern
Gary Leonard Oldman - Rosencrantz

“- Winston Churchill: On certain matters I have very few people with whom I can... talk frankly.
- King George VI: Perhaps now we have each other.
- Winston Churchill: And I no longer scare you?
- King George VI: A little. But I can cope.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill
Ben Mendelsohn - King George VI

“I merely suggest that the position of the sun, if it is out, would give you a rough idea of the time. Alternatively, a clock, if it is going, would give you a rough idea of the position of the sun.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Rosencrantz

“I'm getting the job only because the ship is sinking. It's not a gift, it's revenge.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill

“- Shen: My parents hated me. Do you understand? They wronged me. And I will make it right.
- Soothsayer: They loved you. They loved you so much that having to send you away killed them.
- Shen: The dead exist in the past. And I must attend to the future.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Shen
Michelle Yeoh - Soothsayer

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill