Martin Freeman Quotes
I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I just want to do my job.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I like the mix of something farmlike and something futuristic and artsy mixed together. It's kind of both my worlds.
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At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.
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Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.
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I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.
