Martin Freeman Quotes
My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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How does one get bored of life?
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
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...and she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.
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The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.
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My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
