Gary Oldman Quotes
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
Quotes to Explore
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
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It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.
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There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pure and simple emotion, and also aiming for big time emotion, like love story as well, in a very sincere way. Like 'Superman: The Movie' had done for me.
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
