Gary Oldman Quotes
I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard.
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How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.
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I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm.
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One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
