Freema Agyeman Quotes

I'm not very glamorous.

Freema Agyeman

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• The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Hunting

• It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Naive

• There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • America
  • Crisis

• Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • American
  • Culture
  • Day

• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Birth

• I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• 'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Done
  • Think
  • Popular

• Opening Iran up to foreign investment, increasing its oil exports, and unfreezing over $100 billion in assets means more money for Hamas for building terror tunnels in Gaza, more weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon, more slaughter in Syria, and more violence worldwide.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Money
  • Violence

• If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Why
  • Boss

• I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash–house copper with the lid on.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Thinking

• My idea of a fine wine was one that merely stained your teeth without stripping the enamel.

  

  Clive James
  • Wine

• I like to take man-made objects and push them to the point where they almost lose their reference, so that they become something else, take on other alliances.

  

  Cornelia Parker

• ¡Sí se puede!

  

  Cesar Chavez

• Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

  

  Charles Studd
  • Great
  • God
  • Real

• I'm lucky I have a fast metabolism... my whole family does... everyone's got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Family
  • Energy

• I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I'm a sucker for Thought Catalog. Shelby Fero is really funny on Twitter. And Patton Oswalt, he's sort of like a Twitter throb.

  

  Addison Timlin
  • Funny

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• With each of the men I dated, everything ran its natural course, whether it worked out or not. I never felt burnt by any of them. I don't feel resentful. I don't want those years back. I'm not one of those women who thinks men are bastards. I love men: straight men, gay men. I've always had men close to me, from the time I was a child.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I feel like only now in my life do I really get it -- do I feel that sense of calm. And I feel very grounded. I feel much more confident. I feel, you know, sexier, more intelligent, more to offer, more wisdom, more life experience to draw from.

  

  Sela Ward
  • Feels
  • Intelligent
  • Calm

• Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.

  

  Anders Holm
  • People

• I'm not very glamorous.

  

  Freema Agyeman