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

• My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

  

  Katherine Moennig
  • Trust
  • Challenge

• 'Fear,' Jason said, 'can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.''

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Hate

• There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Father

• Our fans wanted us to be together way before we even realised that we had feelings for each other. Our fans helped us win a dance reality show, and so we decided to share our love with those who have made us who we are.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Together
  • Reality
  • Dance

• For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They'd be like, 'How do I know you?' After, we'd play a guessing game. I'd say, 'I'm an actor,' and they'd go, 'Oh, what have you been in?' I'd list my credits, and they wouldn't really remember me.

  

  Chris Messina
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• I'm not very glamorous.

  

  Freema Agyeman