Gary Oldman Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
