Martin Freeman Quotes

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

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• The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Hand
  • Reach

• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Identity
  • Performance

• Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Fun

• The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Challenges
  • Situation

• I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Comedy
  • Best
  • Language

• During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Party

• The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Mind
  • May

• The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Water

• I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Think
  • Me
  • Service

• Pat Robertson: He's going to have a second term. He's going to win. Romney will win the election.Benny Hinn: You believe that.Pat Robertson: I absolutely believe that.Benny Hinn: What makes you believe that?Pat Robertson: Cause the Lord told me.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Believe

• Who Am I?

  

  Ramana Maharshi

• The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Environment
  • Management
  • Marketing

• 'What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as governing principle.

  

  Babasaheb
  • May
  • Equality

• I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • Cinderella

• If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Good

• When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Buy
  • Ferrari
  • Premium

• Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Help

• Since I finished on 'The Mentalist,' I didn't need to be so near to the studio, so we decided to move a bit further out where you can get more house for your money, too. It definitely feels more like home.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Money
  • Home
  • House

• It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

  

  Billy Wilder
  • Time

• I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

  

  Martin Freeman