Quotes from Gary Oldman movies and TV shows - page 4 of 4

Nathaniel Shepherd: But it's like the malignancy of any secret. It just kept getting worse. Every time I go over it, what I did, the choices I made, I couldn't have done anything else. But that's, that's not the point. I dealt with the problem. I just had no idea what the solution would do to me. It killed me, and I say, it's still killing me.

Gardner Elliot: What was she like? My mother.
Nathaniel Shepherd: She was fearless She was kind And she just... seemed so invincible. And she'd make me wanna give up living when she died.

Jackie Flannery: They don't even want to call it "Hell's Kitchen" no more. Renamed it "Clinton." Sounds like a fucking steamboat.

Tau: I am my memory.

Tau: I choose to be this. It is all that I am. It is for you. Do you like it?

Julia: The Cro-Magnon people were nomadic or semi-nomadic, following the annual migration of their prey.
Tau: So, they did not eat dinosaurs?
Julia: No.
Tau: Then why did you say they did?
Julia: We already went over this. I don't know it all.
Tau: Why not, when you are permitted to read all the books?
Julia: Because where I come from, books don't put food on a table.
Tau: But books don't put food on a table here, either. I do.

Julia: My creators did bad things to me, too. Things that hurt me.
Tau: But you still obey them? Because they created you?
Julia: No. They gave me life, but I did the rest. I created me. You understand? We grow up, and we become our own creators.
Tau: For what purpose do we create ourselves?
Julia: For each other.

Control: All I want from you is one codename: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier...
George Smiley: ...Spy.

George Smiley: We are not so very different, you and I. We've both spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one each other's systems.

George Smiley: What did you think of Control's theory?
Jim Prideaux: I thought it was madness!

Connie Sachs: It was a good time back then.
George Smiley: It was a war, Connie.
Connie Sachs: A war we could be proud of.

George Smiley: I want to talk about loyalty, Toby. Control recruited you, didn't he? He found you starving in a museum in Vienna, a wanted man. He saved your life, I heard. And yet, when the time came... When it came to picking sides between him and Allenine, you didn't hesitate. It's understandable, perhaps, with your war experience. You survived this long, I suppose, because of your ability to change sides, to serve any master.
Easterhase: What's... What's this about, George?
George Smiley: It's about which master you've been serving, Toby.

George Smiley: He's a fanatic. And the fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.