- Nov 07, 2020
Gun Quotes
On family, danger, and a debate that never quite settles.
One quote recalls a son asking for a gun for Christmas and a parent deciding it was finally time, while another reflects on relatives in law enforcement and the hard choices that job can involve. Read more in our Danger quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hold a gun, I know how to be sensible about it. I'm not holding it to wild out or just to shoot somebody because I'm mad at him. There's responsibility in buying that gun, and part of it is dealing with it like a man, and not dealing with it like an idiot, and getting behind iron bars for unnecessary reasons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am used to doing dramatic work, but its fun to grab a gun, and go running around, getting beat-up. Its fun to do the action stuff, because it is really physical. There is nothing like getting into a character by getting beaten up physically.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I've never shot a gun in a movie.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Second Amendment is very important, but we have to have commonsense gun safety.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.
- Brady
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020