Martin Freeman Quotes

I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.

Martin Freeman

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• This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Painting

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Long
  • American
  • Law

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Been
  • Line

• Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Home

• I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Style

• It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• I love grey. My mom told me that when I was younger, I would get mildly depressed when it was grey all the time. I'd be darker when it was dark out. But as an adult, I really love it.

  

  Banks
  • Time
  • Love
  • Mom

• Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Up
  • You
  • Will

• The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Powerful

• I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Man
  • End
  • Selfish

• I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Me

• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Year
  • Mystery
  • Damn

• We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of the most complex things we know.

  

  David Christian
  • Society
  • Hand
  • Sun

• I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

  

  Aubrey O'Day
  • Work
  • Struggle

• I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.

  

  Buddy Hackett
  • People

• I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.

  

  Martin Freeman