Ru Freeman Quotes

The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

I look like the man in the moon.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.

I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

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

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.

Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

Is there stop 'n' go counseling for couples on the run?

An intriguing mind is a powerful aphrodisiac.

I love to work. I'll work all the time, unless somebody stops me. I love it, love it, love it!

The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.

I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business.

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

I want to keep my private life private.

I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.

It is my second visit to Korea since the International Junior Athletic Championships in 1992. Both then and now, I felt Korea is an interesting country and the people are very kind.

I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.

People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.

I'm drinking lots of herbal tea.

I don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention.

I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.

The thing I do best is laugh.