Martin Freeman Quotes

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Single
  • Day
  • Never

• I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Family
  • Nasty
  • Size

• I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Animal

• Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Change
  • Evolution
  • Happen

• People trash talk me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Talk

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • School
  • Change

• I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Guy
  • Interesting
  • Singing

• So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Horse

• Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Know
  • Heartbeat
  • Clumsy

• I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Childhood
  • Drama
  • Complete

• Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Feelings
  • Write
  • Sound

• I love my wife, I love my kids.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Wife

• People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Selfish
  • Obsession

• It's important to be able to have representation for black queer women, because I feel like there's not much representation for them in the mainstream.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • Important
  • Women
  • Black

• I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Mind
  • Black