Martin Fleischmann Quotes

I'm not radical.

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

I am the mainstream.

I'm deeply conservative and I'm profoundly boring.

I don't consider myself a trendsetter.

I am not really known as a globetrotter.

I am aware that I am not extraordinarily gifted in terms of technique.

I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

I think I've got more humour than comes across.

I'm brave and fearless when I'm performing, but in real life, I'm actually quite prudish.

If you have to ask what the judges at Miss Supranational liked about me, I'd say it is my humility.

I think of myself as an excellent actress with a lot to offer, but I'm not aggressive; I'm not ambitious. In fact, I'm anti-ambitious.

I'm old-fashioned and a square.

Even when we had new clothes, we were told not to wear them. You just didn't draw attention to yourself. Showing off was the worst thing you could do. We could put the clothes in the drawers - but not wear them.

I'm not a particularly ambitious person.

I am quite a conservative person, just as an individual.

I am a Conservative, so I don't wish to be seen as a rebel, particularly, at all.

People who know me, the guys who have been around me every day, this is the way I've been... I've never been a guy who just needed a lot of attention. Some people do.

I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices in chocolate.

I have the old-school mentality.

I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don't know if a lot of other people would see me that way.

I don't really consider myself a stud.

I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.