Gary Oldman Quotes
Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Sometimes I have to pinch myself to think: have I really come this far? Because it is quite different, where I find myself today, from where I started off, in the streets of Waterloo, in the suburbs of Liverpool - that's for sure.
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A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
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There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
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Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
