#iv

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#along #becoming #child #events #finding

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#certain #enjoy #i #life #live

We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#current #drink #fit #flat #i

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#beach #been #being #caribbean #children

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#about #alcoholic #anger #anymore #beating

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#been #could #i #john #john lennon

That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#another #apart #character #give #happen

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#gentlemen #give #her #knows #little

I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job. ↗

— Tony Oliva

#because #come #expansion #game #gives