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 can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
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I work in public.
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I'm just a sucker for a good script.
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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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Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
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Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
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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'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
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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 suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.
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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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I think the world needs to see more of my face.
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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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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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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've been well-known in Britain for a long time.
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I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.
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I've always got my eye on my deathbed.
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You have to, in a way, just get your head down and do the work and not expect every day to bring riches and not expect every minute to bring wild excitement, 'cause it just doesn't. It doesn't on films, anyway.
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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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My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
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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.