Martin Freeman Quotes

I don't like affectation.

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• I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Strict

• Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Never
  • Laws
  • Take

• Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Language

• I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl

• There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Colour

• I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Society
  • Political
  • Humanity

• Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
  • Named

• Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Train
  • Diamond

• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  

  Sam Snead
  • People
  • Death
  • Sports

• I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Black
  • Team
  • Best

• Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Child
  • Give
  • Shape

• I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Energy

• I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Career
  • Success
  • Change

• I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Life
  • Up
  • Own

• It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Trying
  • Failure

• Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Technology
  • Movies

• I don't want you to feel defeated, like, 'Oh boy, why do you do this to me?' We have too many of those songs.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Why
  • Boy

• You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Perfect
  • Forever
  • Wait

• Years ago, I couldn't get arrested in commercials because of my look: 'Is he Jewish, Hispanic, or African-American?' I ended up doing voiceover work, which has been great. Honestly, I can't complain.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • History
  • Science
  • Political

• I didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for marketing and for a record label, you're going to set yourself up to be called a phony. As long as it's true to you, you do it.

  

  Anthony Evans
  • Record
  • Marketing
  • Mold

• I don't like affectation.

  

  Martin Freeman