Martin Freeman Quotes

I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much.

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• I loved the world of imagination.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Loved

• But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Responsibility
  • Enjoy

• All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Chaos
  • Mystery

• To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Art
  • Power

• Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Friends

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Myself
  • Place
  • Broke

• To align with our new strategy to enhance the Windows device ecosystem, we are integrating Microsoft Mobile Device Sales (MMDS) underneath the Consumer Channels Group (CCG).

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • New
  • Sales
  • Strategy

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Person
  • Period
  • Three

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Think
  • Striving

• We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Family
  • Human
  • Unity

• The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• My forte is awkwardness.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Awkwardness
  • Forte

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Why
  • Power
  • Stop

• If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.'

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Wall

• I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room.

  

  Kenneth Clark
  • Single
  • Wonder

• If you're trying to stay productive, stop and think, 'Are my meetings actually productive, or are we merely having meetings for meetings' sake?'

  

  Chris Fussell
  • Trying
  • Stop

• I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.

  

  David Douglas
  • Up
  • Work
  • Function

• I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much.

  

  Martin Freeman
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