Martin Freeman Quotes
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Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.
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Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.
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You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.
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I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.
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My first engagement with any art was music.
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I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
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There was very little drama and performance at my school, so I've never forgotten the people who did encourage me and I've thought whether it would be a good idea to even get in touch with them and just say thanks, because they really opened a door for me mentally and emotionally - that's really important.
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I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.
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I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.
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I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.
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I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.
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I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'
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Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
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Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
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My default state is wariness.
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There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.
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I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
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I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.
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I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.
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Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.
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I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.
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Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.
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Comedy can't be about continuous success.
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I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.