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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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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There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
