Gary Oldman Quotes

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

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• All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Love
  • History

• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Saying

• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  

  Og Mandino
  • May
  • Service
  • Better

• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Balance
  • Questions
  • Finding

• I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Time
  • Think
  • Running

• Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Work
  • Black
  • Funny

• It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Truth
  • Spirit
  • Worst

• It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Great
  • Music
  • Different

• As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Famous

• Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Parents

• In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Better
  • Songs
  • Exciting

• I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Beautiful
  • Person
  • Horrible

• The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Family
  • Single
  • Simple

• I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Up
  • World
  • Creative

• I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • See

• I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Great
  • Sleep
  • Sunday

• The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.

  

  Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan
  • Writing
  • She
  • Fighting

• 'You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh fine, fine-couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Up
  • Time
  • Help

• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

  Beck
  • First
  • Kid
  • Generation

• When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Home
  • She
  • Mother

• I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Miracle
  • Kid
  • Take