Martin Freeman Quotes

I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Talking is the disease of age.

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match.

I like stories, and I really like words. So I like stories that rely on dialogue.

But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."

I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.

You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back again. It's one of the human race's most shining achievements. It's called a conversation.

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?" "Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me." "Shall I tell you now?" "No.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Some guys like to talk. What's the problem with that?

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.