Gary Oldman Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Well, you know, I just - I believe marriage should between a man and a woman.
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There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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You must not hide the gifts God has given, but use them in his service
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I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
