Martin Clunes Quotes
For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.'
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
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Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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It was humbling to play Mark Ashton. He was a political activist and a humanist, and there is incredible conviction in his vision. But when you're telling a political story, humour is crucial; otherwise, it can be in danger of becoming a bit preachy, and the audience can feel like they've got an agenda coming full steam at them.
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My dad was a scratch golfer growing up. When I'm on the road, I always bring my clubs with me.
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We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on.
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I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.
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For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.'
