Martin Freeman Quotes

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

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• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

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• If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

  

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• I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

  

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• It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

  

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• I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

  

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• A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

  

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• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

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• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

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• I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

  

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• I've had to be tough my whole life.

  

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• War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

  

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• I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

  

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• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

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• We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

  

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• When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.

  

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• I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.

  

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• Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He's a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.

  

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• I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

  

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• Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes a false perception that if you are talking about race, then you're perpetuating the notion of race. I reject that.

  

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• Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

  

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• When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

  

  Martin Freeman
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