As of March 2009, Oliver platt was performing alongside Lauren Graham in a broadway revival of Guys and Dolls.Entertainment Weekly: Guys and Dolls (February 2009)

• "I've grown up with Watergate. I think I was 12 when Nixon resigned. But I grew up with the specter and the aura of it. But in drilling down in the research, I realized there was so much I didn't know about it, even though I've seen All the President's Men about 90 times."—Oliver PlattAintItCool News: Oliver Platt in the Hot Seat About Frost/Nixon (December 1, 2008)

• "I really just do what interests me, and I consider myself very lucky that I can count on one hand the number of movies I've done because I've needed a job. I'm incredibly lucky."—Oliver PlattAintItCool News: Oliver Platt in the Hot Seat About Frost/Nixon (December 1, 2008)

• "And 2012, what can I say? It's Roland Emmerich, all guns blazing. We know what's going to happen: the world is going to end in four years and that's a really interesting moral question. Who do you tell? Who do you save? What do you do?"—Oliver PlattAintItCool News: Oliver Platt in the Hot Seat About Frost/Nixon (December 1, 2008)