Gary Oldman Quotes

I've got a family now, which matures you.

Being 40 and having three kids puts lots of things in perspective and helps me stay grounded.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you're married now. You still have all the things that you've had, plus you just keep adding.

I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home.

You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.

Before, I would spend all my hours at training, come home, sleep, eat, watch football, sleep, and go back to training the next day. Now I do the school run, train, pick up my daughter. I am living in the real world. I am a father now. That has given me more satisfaction than football.

My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.

I think it's harder when you get older and you start having children because you've got to get up in the morning and you've got actual responsibilities instead of just writing music for yourself.

Things change; your priorities change in life. So I'd never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I've got two kids, and it's selfish.

You can't keep doing the same things when you get married and have a family. You have to slow down. You have to be responsible.

My kids have really brought me into maturity on another level and I really appreciate them for that.

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.