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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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.
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I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.
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I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
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I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.
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For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.'
