Ru Freeman Quotes

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.

I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.

I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

My feelings tried to control me on my run. I had to concentrate fully on forthcoming running and success. I wanted to triumph.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

Asthma is treatable and well can be controlled.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.

Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

I'll just let time happen. I don't have to articulate what may be or what may not be. I don't even do that to myself.

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

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.