Martin Freeman Quotes
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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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.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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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.
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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.
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Actor's life is very long.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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People trash talk me.
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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.
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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.
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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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.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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Our brains are designed to solve some of our most complex problems when we're distracted by routine habits.
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
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In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.
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There was always pressure to make a Scientologist out of the people you were working with.
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Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.
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I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
