#me

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#beat #cup #easy #eggs #especially

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#autobiographical #bit #dad #i #i always

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#career #comes #control #desk #engineer

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#come #different #everything #get #go

Political correctness has become a straightjacket. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#correctness #political #political correctness

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#around #came #harry #harry potter #i

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

Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#craft #embodied #jane #me #mine

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

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing. ↗

— Tony Oliva

#big thing #come #cuba #i #me