Antoinetta Freeman Quotes

No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere. ~ Morgan Freeman

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to be tough and untouchable, but really I was squishy and sensitive. ~ Emily P. Freeman

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'. ~ Morgan Freeman

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one. ~ Morgan Freeman

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. ~ Morgan Freeman

You think to yourself that if anyone knew who you really were, what you've really done, they would never accept you. ~ Emily P. Freeman

We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us. ~ Martin Freeman

The nuclear arms race is over, but the ethical problems raised by nonmilitary technology remain. The ethical problems arise from three "new ages" flooding over human society like tsunamis. First is the Information Age, already arrived and here to stay, driven by computers and digital memory. Second is the Biotechnology Age, due to arrive in full force early in the next century, driven by DNA sequencing and genetic engineering. Third is the Neurotechnology Age, likely to arrive later in the next century, driven by neural sensors and exposing the inner workings of human emotion and personality to manipulation. ~ Freeman Dyson

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared. ~ Freeman Dyson

Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new. ~ James Freeman Clarke

As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene. ~ Martin Freeman

You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on. ~ Gerald Freeman

One of Solstad's regular "connecting" statements in his narrative is: "Vi skal komme tilbakke til . . . " - "We shall come to-back to . . . ~ John Freeman

We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra. ~ Kane Freeman

It seems like something magical happens when we wholeheartedly allow ourselves to be exactly as we are.

The funny thing is that resisting, rejecting or not accepting any aspect our ourselves doesn't seem to change anything anyway. So, we might as well stop fighting it, or at least allow ourselves to keep resisting. Ha! ~ Maximus Freeman

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable. ~ Cathy Freeman

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running. ~ Cathy Freeman

I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since. ~ Freeman Dyson

The traditional respect which nations pay to military valor cannot be denied. As every country has a right to self-defense, every country has a right to give honor to its military leaders. But the honoring of military leaders brings deadly danger to mankind unless both the moral authority granted to them and the technical means at their disposal are strictly limited. Military power should never be confused with moral virtue, and military leaders should never be entrusted with weapons of unlimited destruction. ~ Freeman Dyson

I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to. ~ Morgan Freeman

Well, it's a browser policy, and it says you can't retrieve data from a domain that is different from the domain the page itself was served from. Say ~ Eric Freeman

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando. ~ Orlando Jones

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures. ~ Freeman Dyson

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic. ~ Samuel Freeman Miller

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. ~ James Freeman Clarke

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly. ~ Martin Freeman

Towering genius ... thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Computer models of the climate ... [are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs. ~ Freeman Dyson

I'm very proud of 'The Office' - it was one of the best things I'll ever do. But you do become a slight victim of your own success in the sense that people think that's you, that's what you are, and that's what you'll play forever. ~ Martin Freeman

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it. ~ Martin Freeman

Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference. ~ Morgan Freeman

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible. ~ Freeman Dyson

The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy. ~ Douglas Southall Freeman

If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much. ~ Morgan Freeman

I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination.
D'Molay the Freeman Tracker ~ M. Scott Verne

God does not ask us to carry burdens. He does not ask us to save the world. He does not ask us to come up with a plan. He simply asks us to 'come'. ~ Emily P. Freeman

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be
approached without some humor and some bewilderment. ~ Freeman Dyson

The computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly. ~ Freeman Dyson

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress. ~ Freeman Dyson

As science has become more abstract and remote from everyday experience, the role of metaphor in our descriptions of the world has become more central. The language that nature speaks, as Galileo long pointed out, is mathematics. The language that ordinary human beings speak, especially those of us who are not fluent in mathematics, is metaphor. Lightman ends his discussion with another metaphor: "We are blind men, imagining what we don't see." That is a good description of theoretical physics. ~ Freeman Dyson

I was one of the first in the country, perhaps the first in Chicago, to have my character, my commitment, and my very self attacked in such a way by Movement women that it left me torn in little pieces and unable to function. It took me years to recover, and even today the wounds have not entirely healed.

This attack is accomplished by making you feel that your very existence is inimical to the Movement and that nothing can change this short of ceasing to exist. These feelings are reinforced when you are isolated from your friends as they become convinced that their association with you is similarly inimical to the Movement and to themselves. Any support of you will taint them. Eventually all your colleagues join in a chorus of condemnation which cannot be silenced, and you are reduced to a mere parody of your previous self.

I had survived my youth because I had never given anyone or any group the right to judge me. That right I had reserved to myself.

But the Movement seduced me by its sweet promise of sisterhood.

It claimed to provide a haven from the ravages of a sexist society; a place where one would be understood. It was my very need for feminism and feminists that made me vulnerable. I gave the movement the right to judge me because I trusted it. And when it judged me worthless, I accepted that judgment. ~ Jo Freeman

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true ~ Freeman Dyson

Maybe that means "letting them get away with it" -- but maybe it also means letting *you* get away *from* it. ~ Arthur Freeman

To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough. ~ Freeman Dyson

Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us. ~ Freeman Dyson

I'm drinking lots of herbal tea. ~ Cathy Freeman