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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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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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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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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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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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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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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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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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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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
