Martin Freeman Quotes
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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'm just a sucker for a good script.
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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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Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
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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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The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
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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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True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it's supposed to.
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Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'
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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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I wasn't like a Fifties dad.
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Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.
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I have quite catholic taste in music.
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I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?'