Gary Oldman Quotes

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

Gary Oldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 21, 1958

Topics

MistakesDemocracyWorldBuilding

I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.

John Cho

GoodCultureComedyYearYouKnow

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.

Melissa Manchester

MusicTimeMeDoingPlanYou

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

Andy Murray

FitnessPeopleFriendsProblemSome

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Stephen Sondheim

GoodMusicYourselfYouBecomeMore

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

Roland Gift

SuccessFailureFeelingKindCompany

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center.

Michael Learned

GirlMeHolidaysWindowsGrandmother

Banks will fee you to death. If you bounce a check, the bank has a policy to re-post the check three more times to see if it will be paid. If it continues to bounce they charge a $30 overdraft every time. So, one bounced check will rack up $90 for the bank.

Jonathan Raymond

TimeDeathYouThreeWillSee

Our parents didn't let us watch a lot of television growing up. We had Disney on Sunday nights, and at 8:30, they were like, 'Turn it off! Go to bed!'

Courtney B. Vance

ParentsGrowing UpTelevisionSunday

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Brian Eno

Fairy TaleTraditionYearBackFairy

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

Brian Azzarello

PeopleBad PeopleBadComfortable

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

Antony Beevor

MemoriesPerspectiveWarWorldOwn

I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.

Antony Sher

WorldBelieveTherapyI BelieveWho

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