I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the deep commitment and effort one is willing to undertake for love.
In this quote, Gary Oldman reflects on his desire to portray Dracula, emphasizing that the character's passionate expression of love is central to his motivation. The line 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you' suggests an intense devotion and the lengths one would go to for a beloved, highlighting the timeless and powerful nature of love.
In practice
This quote can be used in a romantic speech or a wedding ceremony.
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.
The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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.
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering.
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.
Love, the life-giving garden of this world.
I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.
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