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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No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.
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Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.
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I think the word 'woke' is now over. The first time I heard my mature, white dad use that term, I was like 'OK, this is done.'
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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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.
