Gary Oldman

Political correctness has become a straightjacket. ”

A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over. ”

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal. ”

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. ”

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'. ”

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling. ”

I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know? ”

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies. ”

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself. ”

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