Martin Freeman Quotes
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I have quite catholic taste in music.
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I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your welcome is a vital ingredient.
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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'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.
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Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
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Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.
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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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If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth.
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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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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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It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.
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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've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.
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I wasn't like a Fifties dad.
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Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
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I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
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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've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.
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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?'
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I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.
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I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.
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I've always been attracted to darkness.
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I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
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Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.