Martin Clunes Quotes

#1. For me, family feels like a web of love and care, and instinctively, too, I do just like nurturing things.

Martin Clunes

#2. What I do know is that I love the whole idea of family, even the word itself.

Martin Clunes

#3. We have a fair on our farm every year - a gymkhana and a dog show and a funfair and a heavy-horse show. It was my idea. Be careful what you wish for - it's a monster.

Martin Clunes

#4. My horses make very silly faces when I'm preparing their meals.

Martin Clunes

#5. Nobody just flops a complete 'Doc Martin' script on the desk. They all have to be taken apart and all the apologizing taken out. Because it's hard to have a protagonist that doesn't really like anyone and nobody really likes him; it's a hard premise to start from.

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#6. Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.

Martin Clunes

#7. Really, for an actor, it's all about remembering a lot of stuff - and keeping the moustache on.

Martin Clunes

#8. An awful lot of people have childhood memories of holidays in Cornwall, and the holidays are old-fashioned and hugely successful. You stick a child and a dog on one of the beaches, and they just light up; they just love it.

Martin Clunes

#9. It's so fantastic that Prince William has championed African wildlife. He's putting his back into it - and one thing the royal family is brilliant at is getting people to cough up.

Martin Clunes

#10. You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

E.B. White

#11. 'Born Free' was the first film I ever saw. I just fell in love with the idea of people having that bond with a wild animal.

Martin Clunes

#12. You do get into a groove, which is great, when you get to act with the same people a lot. Like with Caroline Catz - it's like a duet: you're like a duo jamming together.

Martin Clunes

#13. Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'

Martin Clunes

#14. The main trouble with women is that they will just not put the seat back up again.

Martin Clunes

#15. And that is close to saying that a woman can have no needs, desires, purpose, or calling so compelling and so important that she should not set it aside in an instant, because of a stray sperm.

Katha Pollitt

#16. My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.

Martin Clunes

#17. We keep horses. I have to keep working.

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#18. As first and foremost a character actor, I've always resisted the temptation to cure any of the people I've played or make them lovable in any way; you've just got to celebrate them for what they are.

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#19. When people asked me, 'What are you going to do?' I'd say, 'I'm going to be an actor,' without really thinking about it. And I started acting without really thinking about it. I only thought about it properly a bit later.

Martin Clunes

#20. Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls
... The prophetic soul,
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.

Matthew Arnold

#21. In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you can play and that you can pick up and enjoy playing.

Martin Clunes

#22. For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.'

Martin Clunes

#23. Maybe it was love or maybe it was just loss," he repeats slowly. "I like that. That makes sense to me. Because sometimes you don't know, you just know what you had is gone and you know how that makes you feel.

Karina Halle

#24. I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That's all I do. I don't do anything important; I just work in entertainment.

Martin Clunes

#25. The idea of being a young 50 sounds like you're trying to kid yourself, like a Harley-Davidson or something. I've bought a dressage horse instead.

Martin Clunes

#26. My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns - perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there.

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#27. I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don't believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.

Francine Rivers

#28. I live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's really quiet, with an amazing view - can't see a pylon, can't see a road. Blockbuster's an event in our house, when the little blue envelope comes in.

Martin Clunes

#29. They're so generous, the American fans. They send money to the various charities I support. I tried to raise a little bit of money to send to Nepal, and they were straight in with thousands of dollars.

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