My idea of a good night out is staying in.
MARTIN FREEMAN I don't like affectation.
MARTIN FREEMAN I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of ...
MARTIN FREEMAN I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique wo...
MARTIN FREEMAN Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in m...
MARTIN FREEMAN I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, &#...
MARTIN FREEMAN I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.
MARTIN FREEMAN To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic pe...
MARTIN FREEMAN I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' ...
MARTIN FREEMAN I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
MARTIN FREEMAN I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few d...
MARTIN FREEMAN Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is Ger...
MARTIN FREEMAN The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The ...
MARTIN FREEMAN With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, ...
MARTIN FREEMAN I've always got my eye on my deathbed.
MARTIN FREEMAN 'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's no...
MARTIN FREEMAN There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There...
MARTIN FREEMAN I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hug...
MARTIN FREEMAN I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'Go...
MARTIN FREEMAN As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love t...
MARTIN FREEMAN I'm geek royalty now.
MARTIN FREEMAN Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
MARTIN FREEMAN I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I su...
MARTIN FREEMAN I'm just a sucker for a good script.
MARTIN FREEMAN We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than t...
MARTIN FREEMAN Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
MARTIN FREEMAN I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.
MARTIN FREEMAN There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are...
MARTIN FREEMAN I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally.
MARTIN FREEMAN As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.
MARTIN FREEMAN I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the Briti...
MARTIN FREEMAN If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
MARTIN FREEMAN I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.
MARTIN FREEMAN I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes o...
MARTIN FREEMAN People misunderstand me.
MARTIN FREEMAN Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
MARTIN FREEMAN I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the s...
MARTIN FREEMAN Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.
MARTIN FREEMAN Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.
MARTIN FREEMAN Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
MARTIN FREEMAN I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a...
MARTIN FREEMAN Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come bac...
MARTIN FREEMAN Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
MARTIN FREEMAN I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lig...
MARTIN FREEMAN In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are p...
MARTIN FREEMAN Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not...
MARTIN FREEMAN 'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that...
MARTIN FREEMAN I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume...
MARTIN FREEMAN I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. I...
MARTIN FREEMAN [On his Emmy win] I thought ‘ah, very, very nice’ and then I went to sleep.
MARTIN FREEMAN You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
MARTIN FREEMAN As a result, these families are being destroyed.
MARTIN FREEMAN It's been systematic low-balling, high-pressure tactics to get people to accept pennies on the dolla...
MARTIN FREEMAN The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
MARTIN FREEMAN Once you've switched that switch, then, though you notice that other people are great, you're just n...
MARTIN FREEMAN Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thin...
MARTIN FREEMAN Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first...
MARTIN FREEMAN The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
MORGAN FREEMAN And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places yo...
MORGAN FREEMAN The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is...
FREEMAN DYSON Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce...
FREEMAN DYSON Leading off an inning you never know, I could get a bunt base hit and start a rally.
FREDDIE FREEMAN I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black m...
MORGAN FREEMAN The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap ...
FREEMAN DYSON You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you thi...
FREEMAN DYSON I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see ...
MORGAN FREEMAN Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, ...
MORGAN FREEMAN So when we need to do maintenance, we aren't digging up a meadow.
ADRIENNE FREEMAN I've read about the budget and the need for matching funds. I would be willing to see the money bett...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN On the valley floor, it's probably compacted about six inches and that's fairly significant.
ADRIENNE FREEMAN I think people enjoy the cooler temperatures. I think people especially from the area should really ...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN Late March through April and early May are definitely among the most variable months. That's one of ...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN We have had a great deal of precipitation, but the variable warming and cooling trends has made it s...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN It was the coldest recorded temperatures in the park this season.
ADRIENNE FREEMAN Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
ROBERT FREEMAN It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
FREEMAN DYSON The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we...
FREEMAN DYSON It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humo...
FREEMAN DYSON If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wis...
FREEMAN DYSON There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
FREEMAN DYSON The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good e...
FREEMAN DYSON I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics which was so enormo...
FREEMAN DYSON A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad...
FREEMAN DYSON Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. W...
CHRISWELL FREEMAN Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are th...
FREEMAN DYSON Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factorie...
FREEMAN DYSON Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go arou...
MORGAN FREEMAN Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance...
MORGAN FREEMAN Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting yo...
FREEMAN THOMAS If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that d...
MORGAN FREEMAN A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha...
FREEMAN DYSON I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer indust...
FREEMAN DYSON The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who...
FREEMAN DYSON It's just so much fun to relax and just play baseball for a living. It's a great time in my ...
FREDDIE FREEMAN Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. I...
FREEMAN DYSON Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something m...
MORGAN FREEMAN The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Supe...
MORGAN FREEMAN I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the...
MORGAN FREEMAN People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthf...
MORGAN FREEMAN My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time...
MORGAN FREEMAN Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.
MORGAN FREEMAN Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he en...
FREEMAN DYSON People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
CATHY FREEMAN What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity whe...
FREEMAN DYSON The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
FREEMAN DYSON he didn't have to die like that.
ANN FREEMAN I don't know how much I'm going to find out. I don't know how much of the truth will be told.
ANN FREEMAN He was a good guy in the wrong place, ... with a problem.
ANN FREEMAN There is no sound for a moment, no breathing. And then a muffled scream, like she has pressed someth...
ANN FREEMAN I've been battling with these guys for five seasons, ... I know the intangibles of going against the...
ARTURO FREEMAN I've been battling with these guys for five seasons, ... I know the intangibles of going against the...
ARTURO FREEMAN That's the first thing a lot of people say. They mention winning the game last year against these gu...
ARTURO FREEMAN I've been battling with these guys for five seasons. I know the intangibles of going against them. W...
ARTURO FREEMAN If you can't beat them over the years, ... you might as well join them.
ARTURO FREEMAN Our internal polling has been showing that we're up by 20 points.
ALLEN FREEMAN That's silly. Anybody who has ever been to a Republican convention knows things on the floor are hig...
ALLEN FREEMAN You're having a conversation with people, and you feel they have told you something and you have the...
ALLEN FREEMAN Some of the main organizers of this were McEwen people, so I'm not surprised that they were able to ...
ALLEN FREEMAN I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderfu...
MORGAN FREEMAN Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
FREEMAN DYSON Obviously, being a first baseman, you're kind of expected to hit some home runs. Obviously, that...
FREDDIE FREEMAN Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup...
MORGAN FREEMAN When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.
CATHY FREEMAN It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget...
MORGAN FREEMAN I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.
MORGAN FREEMAN Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck....
MORGAN FREEMAN Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. W...
MORGAN FREEMAN Black history is American history.
MORGAN FREEMAN I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
MORGAN FREEMAN This is very, very competitive. Three-quarters of the kids that play here end up with a full-ride sc...
BRUCE FREEMAN And it was around in the 1960s and 1970s as a recreational drug, too. The song 'Mother's Little Help...
BRUCE FREEMAN The DEA will hire contractors to come and properly dispose of the chemicals, but they don't take out...
BRUCE FREEMAN It would be prohibitively expensive to sample all of the soil and water surrounding a lab just to id...
BRUCE FREEMAN I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you...
MORGAN FREEMAN It used to be a series of shows like 'St. Elsewhere,' 'L.A. Law' and 'Twin Peaks'
BRADLEY FREEMAN It caught me a little bit off guard, ... At first, I lost my memory for a moment, that music had a m...
BRADLEY FREEMAN I hope we don't move.
BRADLEY FREEMAN It's inspired extreme loyalty. It's Americana; it's part of our culture.
BRADLEY FREEMAN I was very happy to get Margo back. And her two singles showed how much we've missed her.
BILL FREEMAN It was absolutely a proper thing to do.
BILL FREEMAN The plasmapheresis is something I wouldn't wish on anyone,
BILL FREEMAN Now I have a new lease on life. I have a new kidney, ... I always say I carry a part of my wife arou...
BILL FREEMAN I think it's just pride in the United States, period,
BILL FREEMAN Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.
BILL FREEMAN We're sharing a poll, not sharing an election, ... It's our first attempt in stopping all this every...
BILL FREEMAN If gas stays at $3 per gallon, I know a lot of officials just won't go.
BILL FREEMAN The wheels came off the cart in the sixth and seventh innings.
BILL FREEMAN Kendra was a trooper. Her shoulder and elbow began bothering her during the early stages of the seco...
BILL FREEMAN I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, ...
MORGAN FREEMAN Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
MORGAN FREEMAN Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
FREEMAN DYSON The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club,...
FREEMAN DYSON I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have st...
FREEMAN DYSON This approach may be legitimate with taxpayers who are known evaders. But it's very upsetting when a...
CAROLYN FREEMAN I thought what a wonderful thing it is to leave a legacy to this world, which he has, because his mu...
CAROLYN FREEMAN Be-bop of the '50s vintage as played by all the old-timers is great, but it's old and none of the ne...
CAROLYN FREEMAN They are our inspiration ? to stay healthy, keep active, have a good outlook on life and just enjoy ...
CAROLYN FREEMAN I don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention.
CATHY FREEMAN I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.
CATHY FREEMAN I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.
CATHY FREEMAN I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.
CATHY FREEMAN Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.
CATHY FREEMAN Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like m...
CATHY FREEMAN When I heard about [O'Sullivan running for Australia] I though that she's actually taking away a pla...
CATHY FREEMAN It's a very competitive environment. I don't feel out of place at all.
CATHY FREEMAN I think your allegiance should be to one country. I mean, she is exercising her freedom I guess, she...
CATHY FREEMAN For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and...
CATHY FREEMAN I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predes...
MORGAN FREEMAN The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
FREEMAN DYSON God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
FREEMAN DYSON He called me grandpa. He was my grandson and everything. I'd been taking care of him for five months...
STEVE FREEMAN These instruments don't care if it's blood or paint thinner to detect color.
MARY FREEMAN Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is...
FREEMAN DYSON Ford Reflex is a small car that doesn't feel small.
FREEMAN THOMAS The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, bright...
FREEMAN DYSON I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she...
CATHY FREEMAN Getting a standing ovation was kind of humbling that so many people are so happy that I have been na...
MORGAN FREEMAN I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestina...
MORGAN FREEMAN In my country, we talk to our women, not drug them with plants.
MORGAN FREEMAN We are all part of American history. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American h...
MORGAN FREEMAN Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would stil...
MORGAN FREEMAN Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something m...
MORGAN FREEMAN Ben - Sir Ben - is always a lift. He's always interesting to watch, so you just try and remember you...
MORGAN FREEMAN It is not so much that people are frustrated (with studios)...They see opportunities.
MORGAN FREEMAN I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.
MORGAN FREEMAN Broadband distribution of movies is no longer an idea - it's a reality.
MORGAN FREEMAN You're going to relegate my history to a month.
MORGAN FREEMAN Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to...?' I...
MORGAN FREEMAN In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.
MORGAN FREEMAN [Man] is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he h...
MORGAN FREEMAN I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful, ....
MORGAN FREEMAN Strange country, this...England.
MORGAN FREEMAN The walks just kind of sprung it loose.
JEFF FREEMAN I gravitate towards gravitas.
MORGAN FREEMAN We recently sold a lovely 17th century coffer with beautiful carving for $3,500. What else can you b...
LISA FREEMAN In the past, my success has come with sticking to one plan. That usually works. Obviously it's g...
FREDDIE FREEMAN I think it's just poise. A lot of senior leadership. We've got a lot of old guys. So I think that fa...
ZACH FREEMAN I find it disturbing to think about moving graveyards. It's not a planning issue, but it's a moral o...
RICHARD FREEMAN I am housebound. There is no point to shoveling the sidewalk ... the drifts are impossibly high and ...
RICHARD FREEMAN It was totally premeditated. They came to the UK to commit a murder, as a result of a blood feud in ...
RICHARD FREEMAN