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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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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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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When you're young, you're stupid.
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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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'Hill St.' was very good, but it was very impersonal work for me. I wrote about that place as if I was a visitor. It wasn't what my life was like. It was a great place to learn the craft of how to shape a scene, but I wanted a chance to write about more personal themes and obsessions.
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I always think about how Chaka Khan used to take suede, all these classic fabrics, and then make them very movable. She's my everything!
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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Too much comedy is filthy these days. There's nothing they won't say. I like Jimmy Carr, but I don't like the language he uses. I don't understand why he feels it necessary; I find it extremely offensive.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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.
