"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

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“The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression â€“ by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.”
“Become better listeners. Practice the art of listening in everything you do. Not just listening to yourself and your body, but listening to the people around you, listening to the plant world, the animal world. Really open your ears to what's coming at you. From there, see if you can have the ability to respond instead of react. And that usually comes with listening. If the observation and the listening are deep, then your action will be deep also.”
“Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.”
“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
“I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.”

Source : Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.
“Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.”
“Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.”

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