Martin Freeman Quotes

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Style equals pretense.

I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.

I can't stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

I loathe people who are disingenuous or inauthentic.

I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat; I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't. You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won't. Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows, Your handshake ain't matchin your smile.

Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.