Martin Freeman Quotes

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

Martin Freeman

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• Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Way
  • Superior

• In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Power
  • True

• The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Time
  • Want
  • Government

• I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• Donald Trump’s voice is resonating with average Americans who feel their voice has been lost by their party, I believe this will become a new Republican Party, one that we should embrace. We should be the party of working men and women, the party of America first.

  

  Lou Barletta
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Surfing

• I never get recognized. Most of the time, when people think they know me, they believe I'm a member of their family. And that's the way I like it. That's just fine.

  

  Khandi Alexander
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

  

  Bjork
  • Nature

• While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Memories
  • Survival

• What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

  

  Douglas Feith
  • World
  • Help

• We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work

• Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • American
  • War
  • Growing

• The Longstockings are eight children's and young adult writers. We all came out of the New School MFA program, and we meet regularly to critique each other's work.

  

  Lisa Graff
  • Work
  • Children
  • School

• I'm basically a gift-giver.

  

  Christie Hefner

• The world changed on us. In a world where there were singles bars in every city, women weren't going to go out and hang out in a Playboy Club.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • World
  • Women
  • City

• A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Butterfly

• It took a long time for me to have any impact in the business because I didn't look like an actor, I didn't sound like an actor.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Business

• Hype tends to precede the reality in biotech, but the reality does follow. Usually.

  

  Arvind Gupta
  • Reality

• I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
  • Remember
  • Play
  • Church

• As an artist, you're thankful to get a shot at a story more than once, because it doesn't happen all the time. Whether you talk about 'Hamlet' or 'Death of a Salesman,' you always want to see what the next group of actors will do.

  

  Kenny Leon
  • Time
  • Death
  • Thankful

• I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Power
  • Play
  • Theatre

• I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.

  

  David Harewood
  • Remember
  • History
  • Culture

• Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

  

  Jeff Bingaman
  • American
  • Today
  • Energy

• Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Hamlet