Martin Freeman Quotes
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Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
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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 work in public.
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Comedy can't be about continuous success.
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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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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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I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should now say I care a lot about 3D. I've always loved 3D, I think everything should be 3D, and I think it's just a shame 'The Godfather' wasn't in 3D.
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I'm just a sucker for a good script.
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On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'
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I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.
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I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.
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'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.
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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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Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
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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 like life to surprise me.
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Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.
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I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.
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I think the world needs to see more of my face.
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I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
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I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.
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Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.
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I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.
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Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.