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 think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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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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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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In L.A. Confidential, it was great to surprise the audience with Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - two Australian actors that they didn't know at all - and let people discover them through the course of the film.
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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.
