Martin Freeman Quotes
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
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It's a lot of work that goes into producing and directing and all those kinds of things. It doesn't just happen. It's a lotta work. It's a lot more work than acting.
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You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
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I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.
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Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.
