Gary Oldman Quotes

I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.

Gary Oldman

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• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Church

• I made my first movie when I was five.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • First
  • Made

• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • First

• I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Lord
  • Without

• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Afraid

• I just couldn't live without dogs.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Live
  • Just
  • Without

• One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

  

  Jack London
  • Nature
  • Without
  • Cannot

• We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • First
  • Independence
  • Needed

• I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • First
  • Influence
  • Chaos

• Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.

  

  R. Kelly
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Clothes

• The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Me
  • Without
  • Engagement

• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Up
  • Man
  • Alone

• Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • You
  • First

• Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • First
  • Stage
  • Without

• My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

  

  Warren Giles
  • Baseball
  • First
  • Welfare

• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Remember
  • First
  • Race

• I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Doing

• When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Good
  • Past
  • Culture

• A dream role is a role that you can't even picture for yourself. Everything I've ever played I never pictured I would get a chance to play. It [has] gone beyond my wildest dreams. One thing I would love to do in my lifetime is a movie musical. I've wanted to do that since I was a kid. That's what made me interested in acting in the first place. I would do any type of musical, but I love the Harlem Renaissance era. I think a dream role in something that I probably can't see and I don't know when it's going to come.

  

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson
  • Dream
  • Picture
  • Role

• No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

  

  Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Nature
  • Law

• I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nihilism and faith. In fact, the issue may not be faith as such but the fact that for millennia, Christianity has buttressed itself with a particular kind of metaphysics that has now seemingly reached the end of its life-span. But perhaps Buddhist metaphysics could provide an alternative here - or, at least, offer a direction of travel.

  

  George Pattison
  • Faith
  • Travel
  • Term

• I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Childhood
  • First
  • Without