Gary Oldman Quotes
People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.
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If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
