Gary Oldman Quotes

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

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• Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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  • Work
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• I love talking about myself.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Talking

• I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.

  

  Barbara Walters
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  • Editor

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
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• I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

  

  Origen
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• Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
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  • Work

• The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

  

  Irwin Redlener
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• I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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  • Jesus

• I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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  • Television
  • Mirrors

• You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
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• Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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  • Skill

• By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

  

  Sadie Frost
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• Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

  

  Victoria Principal
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• It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

  

  Bailey Chase
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• I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
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  • Years
  • Blame

• I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
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  • Kids

• I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

  

  Dave Attell
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  • Comedy

• I'm having more fun working on 'Eerie, Indiana' because I have the leading role, and this is more of a lighter type of show.

  

  Omri Katz
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  • Working
  • Role

• '3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.

  

  Ram Charan
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• I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

  

  Don Novello
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  • Book
  • Kids

• On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

  

  Gary Oldman
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