Gary Oldman Quotes
I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I love to write.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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I want to try everything.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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You're perfectly right. There's no two ways about it. When you leave, it will slay me.
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I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
