By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.


Gary Oldman

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

We never had any doubt that Harry Potter and his world came from the rich and extraordinary imaginat...
BARBARA MARCUS
Draco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
— J.K. Rowling (Ha...
J.K. ROWLING
LDraco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
— J.K. Rowling (H...
J.K. ROWLING
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl...
PAUL BLOOM
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared in...
GARY ROSS
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's wh...
J.K. ROWLING
We are delighted to announce that worldwide sales for the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling have now...
CHRISTOPHER LITTLE
I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' f...
LEV GROSSMAN
We are delighted to announce that worldwide sales for the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling have ...
CHRISTOPHER LITTLE
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'H...
CASSANDRA CLARE
We never had any doubt that Harry Potter and his world came from the rich and extraordinary imaginat...
BARBARA MARCUS
Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.
ANDREW-LEE POTTS
She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON
Harry dreamed he was back in the DA room. Cho was accusing him of luring her there under false prete...
J.K. ROWLING
Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters,' said Sirius with a wry smile.
J.K. ROWLING
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?'

'Yes,' said Harry.

'You ca...
J.K. ROWLING
[Dale has created some 200 voices for the series, including 96 for the just-released] Harry Potter a...
RANDOM HOUSE
No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the...
RICK RIORDAN
I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her im...
SHERYL SANDBERG
Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, th...
J.K. ROWLING
By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones ...
J.K. ROWLING
You don't seem to need many qualifications to liaise with Muggles; all they want is an OWL in Muggle...
J.K. ROWLING
I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!
ASAP ROCKY
Fru Weasley vækkede dem tidligt den følgende onsdag.

Efter en let morgenmad bestående ...
J.K. ROWLING
Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly...
J.K. ROWLING
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy."

[Har...
J.K. ROWLING
I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books t...
HALEY JOEL OSMENT
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
And it’s Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I’ve been saying it for ...
J.K. ROWLING
With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up.
Sirius was loungin...
J.K. ROWLING
Search deep and wide, from all sphere of known and unknown cosmos, You will find many things that ha...
OLUSEYI AKINBAMI
Christianity is the most efficacious way of life in the world
SUNDAY ADELAJA
I can summarize my thoughts now by simply saying each must find his or her own Way because "the way"...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
Those who worry stumble long The Way.
Those who pray have no time to stray.
ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE
We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA
To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS...
The Hobbit is based on an earlier, shorter book, written by legendary author J.K. Rowling. This make...
MIKE STOKLASA
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
Harry Potter," he said very softly. His voice might have been part of the spitting fire. "The Boy Wh...
J.K. ROWLING
First, I felt just shock, and then I felt there's no way, just no way, Dumbledore couldn't be dead, ...
ARTHUR LEVINE
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON
Harry Potter mustn't be angry... Dobby hoped... if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten hi...
J.K. ROWLING
JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise e...
STEPHEN PROSAPIO
For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. -Albus Dubledore (Harry Potter and the pri...
J.K. ROWLING
For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
PHILIPPA GREGORY
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.
I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the gam...
JOEL KINNAMAN
There's nothing quite like Harry Potter in publishing. It's No. 1. Apart from that, it is a true soc...
MARIA AMOR CALLEJA
The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomeno...
ELVIS MITCHELL
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
In the same way that so many people read 'Harry Potter' and went to see 'Harry Potter,&#...
CASSANDRA CLARE
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS
("we appreciated the intricately thought-out, detailed universe you've created for your story." ~Art...
ARTHUR A. LEVINE BOOKS
A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an...
J.K. ROWLING
My refusal to remove the book from the library was backed by a majority of the Board of Governors. I...
J.K. ROWLING
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.
WAYNE HUIZENGA
Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm."

"Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it...
BRANDON SANDERSON
All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.
CATHERINE OF SIENA
Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; ne...
ANONYMOUS
Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA
Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA
The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA
Disney is hoping to have a Harry Potter franchise out of this.
ALAN GOULD
That is the way the process worked out.
DICK GROSS
Albus Severus," kata Harry pelan, sehingga tak ada orang lain kecuali Ginny yang bisa mendengarnya, ...
J.K. ROWLING
Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex.
LEV GROSSMAN
Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite di...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa...
C. JOYBELL C.
I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the ...
ERIC LINDROS
You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN
And again Harry understood without having to think. It did not matter about bringing them back, for ...
J.K. ROWLING
I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have gro...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV.
I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
VICTORIA AVEYARD
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on ...
GUNTHER SCHULLER
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As i...
ALAN W. WATTS
We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA
Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE
I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific thi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You should have told her differently,' said Hermione, still with that maddeningly patient air. 'You ...
J.K. ROWLING
Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore...
J.K. ROWLING
The three witches and the knight set off down the hill together, arm in arm, and all four led long a...
J.K. ROWLING
Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE
This case could go some way in determining what type of person ... I think it's important to find ou...
TOM JENSEN
Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE
He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
J.K. ROWLING
I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book
J.K. ROWLING
Harry then did something that was both very brave and very stupid
J.K. ROWLING
Orang yang paling bahagia di dunia adalah orang yang bisa menggunakan Cermin Tarsah seperti cermin b...
J.K. ROWLING
Killing rips the soul apart.
J.K. ROWLING
It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.
J.K. ROWLING
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications ...
J.K. ROWLING
Yeah,” said Ron, “and lucky Harry doesn’t lose his head in a crisis — ‘there’s no wood,�...
J.K. ROWLING
But Death was cunning.
J.K. ROWLING

More Gary Oldman

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.&...
GARY OLDMAN
You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that ju...
GARY OLDMAN
It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many...
GARY OLDMAN
I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lu...
GARY OLDMAN
I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry....
GARY OLDMAN
What other people think of me is none of my business.
GARY OLDMAN
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
GARY OLDMAN
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and havin...
GARY OLDMAN
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you'r...
GARY OLDMAN
Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
GARY OLDMAN
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
GARY OLDMAN
Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live v...
GARY OLDMAN
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to h...
GARY OLDMAN
You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
GARY OLDMAN
I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic...
GARY OLDMAN
We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.
GARY OLDMAN
People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown re...
GARY OLDMAN
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some cr...
GARY OLDMAN
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
GARY OLDMAN
And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the cl...
GARY OLDMAN
I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a l...
GARY OLDMAN
I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in it...
GARY OLDMAN
Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when no...
GARY OLDMAN
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but y...
GARY OLDMAN
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and com...
GARY OLDMAN
It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anym...
GARY OLDMAN
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
GARY OLDMAN
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a ...
GARY OLDMAN
You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down ...
GARY OLDMAN
And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I&#...
GARY OLDMAN
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. B...
GARY OLDMAN
There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civi...
GARY OLDMAN
Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to t...
GARY OLDMAN
To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.
GARY OLDMAN
To be honest, I'm a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking...
GARY OLDMAN
I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic...
GARY OLDMAN
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that'...
GARY OLDMAN
I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I ...
GARY OLDMAN
I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as...
GARY OLDMAN
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically strong...
GARY OLDMAN
The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't ...
GARY OLDMAN
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never...
GARY OLDMAN
I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out a...
GARY OLDMAN
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin La...
GARY OLDMAN
I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I...
GARY OLDMAN
I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from...
GARY OLDMAN
Office romance just doesn't carry the same stigma it did a generation ago.
MARK OLDMAN
(It's) really hitting its stride this year.
MARK OLDMAN
They have a big attraction -- there are no strings attached, and if doesn't work out, you go pick ou...
MARK OLDMAN
One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
GARY VAYNERCHUK
When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate ef...
GARY JENNINGS
I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two majo...
GARY JOHNSON
For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi...
GARY FRANK
Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and und...
GARY COHN
If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
GARY JOHNSON
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
GARY ALLAN
Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's...
GARY GYGAX
Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of lig...
GARY ZUKAV
When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to le...
GARY ZUKAV
The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to conn...
GARY ZUKAV
A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to ...
GARY ZUKAV
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a p...
GARY ZUKAV
There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The o...
GARY ZUKAV
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we w...
GARY ZUKAV
The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters...
GARY ZUKAV
The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness a...
GARY ZUKAV
We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make t...
GARY ZUKAV
The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for t...
GARY WEISS
Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techni...
GARY BAUER
I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
GARY JOHNSON
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've ...
GARY BAUER
People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger ab...
GARY LINEKER
I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an ...
GARY WRIGHT
By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't thi...
GARY WRIGHT
I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled ...
GARY WRIGHT
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
GARY WRIGHT
I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performance...
GARY WRIGHT
I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
GARY WRIGHT
I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
GARY WRIGHT
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them...
GARY WRIGHT
In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
GARY WRIGHT
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
GARY WRIGHT
The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the ...
GARY WRIGHT
The more far-out artists, the better.
GARY WRIGHT
We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
GARY WRIGHT
I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying ...
GARY WRIGHT
Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up...
GARY WRIGHT
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It'...
GARY WRIGHT
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
GARY WRIGHT
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessa...
GARY WOLF
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
GARY WOLF
Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist f...
GARY WOLF
The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and u...
GARY WOLF
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it...
GARY WOLF
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where fami...
GARY WOLF
Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl th...
GARY WOLF
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macin...
GARY WOLF
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic...
GARY WOLF
Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also m...
GARY WOLF
Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field ...
GARY WOLF
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to ...
GARY WOLF
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it...
GARY WOLF
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware ...
GARY WOLF
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends ...
GARY WOLF
During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that,...
GARY WOLF
Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and...
GARY WEISS
Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies a...
GARY WEISS
Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journ...
GARY WEISS
At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at t...
GARY WEISS
When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harri...
GARY WEISS
George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger...
GARY WEISS
India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout i...
GARY WEISS
People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are ent...
GARY WEISS
With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they ...
GARY WEISS
Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regula...
GARY WEISS
Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased strivin...
GARY WEISS
I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer,...
GARY WEISS
Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively prea...
GARY WEISS
The flip side of humiliation is pride.
GARY WEISS
Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiqu...
GARY WEISS
Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
GARY WEISS
In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as w...
GARY WEISS
Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
GARY WEISS
One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intell...
GARY WEISS
You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when t...
GARY WEBB
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S....
GARY WEBB
Beaujolais is so underrated.
GARY VAYNERCHUK
Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the s...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is ...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is g...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love t...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
I love people, and the hustle.
GARY VAYNERCHUK
When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. M...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers eve...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need t...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culi...
GARY VAYNERCHUK
My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
GARY VALENTINE
The key in controlling my asthma is pretty simple: I have a good professional diagnosis, and I follo...
GARY VALENTINE
Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if...
GARY VALENTINE
I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.
GARY SPEED
I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
GARY SPEED
Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
GARY SPEED
If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have reti...
GARY SPEED
A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have be...
GARY SPEED
If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a g...
GARY SPEED
You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
GARY SPEED
I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the mo...
GARY SPEED
Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's diff...
GARY SPEED
Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games....
GARY SPEED
I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
GARY SINISE
I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
GARY SINISE
I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
GARY SINISE
But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
GARY SINISE
If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last t...
GARY SINISE
I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
GARY SINISE
I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficul...
GARY SINISE
The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that ma...
GARY SINISE
I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm ...
GARY SINISE
I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
GARY SINISE
I study to learn, to be an educated person.
GARY SINISE
You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie...
GARY SINISE
I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their ga...
GARY SINISE
I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I kn...
GARY SINISE
My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go...
GARY SINISE
You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on t...
GARY SINISE
The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to ...
GARY SINISE
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine run...
GARY SINISE
Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.
GARY SINISE
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
GARY SHTEYNGART
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, bu...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ...
GARY SHTEYNGART
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
GARY SHTEYNGART
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both t...
GARY SHTEYNGART
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
GARY SHTEYNGART
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my mult...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pret...
GARY SHTEYNGART
A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se...
GARY SHTEYNGART
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
GARY SHTEYNGART
I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli...
GARY SHTEYNGART
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person th...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creati...
GARY SHTEYNGART
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph...
GARY SHTEYNGART
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n...
GARY SHTEYNGART
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g...
GARY SHTEYNGART
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv...
GARY SHTEYNGART
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
GARY SHTEYNGART
In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
GARY SHERMAN
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc...
GARY SHERMAN
I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. T...
GARY SHERMAN
You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h...
GARY SHERMAN
I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to ...
GARY SHERMAN