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Gary Oldman

"Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger."

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"Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger."

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Donna Grant

"Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!"

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Donna Grant

"When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love."

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Donna Grant

"Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice."

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Donna Grant

"If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!"

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Donna Grant

"Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger."

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Donna Grant

"Control your "anger because it is just ONE Letter away from "danger."

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Donna Grant

"But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself."

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Donna Grant

"Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused."

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Donna Grant

"Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old."

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Donna Grant

"Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other."

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Gary Oldman
"Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice."

Family

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Gary Oldman
"What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you."

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Gary Oldman
"Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger."

Anger

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Gary Oldman
"I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved."

Mother

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Gary Oldman
"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."

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Gary Oldman
"I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies."

Movies

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Gary Oldman
"Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that."

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Gary Oldman
"I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him."

Father

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Gary Oldman
"My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music."

Love

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Gary Oldman
"Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position."

Film

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