Martin Freeman Quotes

'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's not the kind of ship that comes into dock very often.

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• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Media
  • Lazy

• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Control
  • Best

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Know
  • Written
  • Arts

• I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • World
  • Best
  • Travel

• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Young

• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Sin
  • Longer
  • Forsake

• I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Different
  • Together
  • Mother

• I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • People
  • Career
  • Motorcycle

• I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Lucky

• The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Like
  • Baseball
  • Sound

• It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • You
  • Amazing
  • Trouble

• I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Me
  • Say
  • Wrong

• I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Up
  • World
  • Boy

• You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Desire
  • Personality
  • Self

• I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs.

  

  Fleur East
  • Great
  • Legs
  • Weights

• Some guys, when they play with other elite players, they end up being too unselfish; or guys who are used to having the ball in their hands all the time, now they're not as aggressive or as instinctive because they're thinking too much out there.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.

  

  Max Brooks
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Memories

• The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Party

• Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Law
  • Charity

• I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try desperately to woo a listener. As long as I'm using my voice in a way that helps people understand what I'm trying to say, then I feel like I'm doing all right.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Long
  • Writing

• 'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's not the kind of ship that comes into dock very often.

  

  Martin Freeman