Martin Freeman Quotes
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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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I'm just a sucker for a good script.
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Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
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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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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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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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I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
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I think the world needs to see more of my face.
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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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'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 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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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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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 have quite catholic taste in music.