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 don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Never

• Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Time
  • Long
  • Simple

• After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Couple
  • Hamlet

• 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

• The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Long
  • Real
  • May

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

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Hamlet