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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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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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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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.
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I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.
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The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.
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You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.
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Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
