Gary Oldman Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.
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If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
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Anything that exposes the arts more, that gives us an outlet to make money and also do what we enjoy doing as artists and to connect with the fans, I'm all for it.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
