Gary Oldman Quotes

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

There are good characters and bad characters.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

I only help the superheroes, I don't help the villains.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same time, I think what stands out is, as superheroes, you don't give up; you don't surrender. I think that's what makes a superhero.

Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view -- which scorns virtue and altruism -- regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heroes who do honor to humanity..

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

I'm going to try to play some good guys for a while and just see how that is. It's hard to enjoy them as much as the bad guys, and the clothes are nowhere near as good. Good guys don't wear nice suits!

In a post-9/11 world, 'Batman' is less about scaring bad people into the shadows than he is about bringing good people out into the light.