Martin Freeman Quotes
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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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True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
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There are always challenges to green screen.
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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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You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.
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Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
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I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
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I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.
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I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
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Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
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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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Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.
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I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.
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My first engagement with any art was music.
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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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I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there is a real atmosphere to their films. Not everyone can get that. That's a massive part of their appeal: you can recognise them. Like all the great directors or artists, you know it when you see it.
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With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
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I like talky scenes.
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People misunderstand me.
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I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.