Martin Freeman Quotes

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and is one of my favorites.

We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our lives - to forget our history. That's why George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.

What I started to read and most enjoyed while I was a student was an Italian edition of 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.'

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely for myself, and I cherished it.

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'

I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.

I've read a lot of Terry Pratchett's stuff, probably from when I was, like, 14.

As I kid, I read the 'Little House on the Prairie' series and was sad when I got to the last book.

Between the ages of 8 and 12, all I wanted to read were 'Star Wars' books.

I wasn't really much of a reader early on, but when I first started getting into reading at around 16 all I could really read was Kurt Vonnegut books.

One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me what the novel can do.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.