Martin Freeman Quotes
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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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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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Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
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People misunderstand me.
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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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Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
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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'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 can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
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The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.
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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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I think the world needs to see more of my face.
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Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.
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I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
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I'm very proud of 'The Office' - it was one of the best things I'll ever do. But you do become a slight victim of your own success in the sense that people think that's you, that's what you are, and that's what you'll play forever.
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This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time.
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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 can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
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I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.
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There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'
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I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.
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I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.