Martin Freeman Quotes
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
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Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
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My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.
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I never really saw myself as a comedy director, and I still don't. I see myself as a director.
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It is essential to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a sustainable one for people and planet. It could even drive greater innovation, not only for short-term benefits and solutions for human wealth but also long-term solutions that benefit all and enable planetary stability.
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She described herself as happy. This diagnosis did not come from any welling up of joy inside herself. It came from the observed fact, looking at herself objectively, that whenever she decided she wanted something she always got it, and what other definition of happiness could there be?
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Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!
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A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.
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Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.
