Martin Freeman Quotes
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Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.
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I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should now say I care a lot about 3D. I've always loved 3D, I think everything should be 3D, and I think it's just a shame 'The Godfather' wasn't in 3D.
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I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
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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've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.
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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 work in public.
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I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.
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To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.
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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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I love the smaller scenes. I love the smaller, slightly more theatrical scenes.
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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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Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
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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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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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I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?
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I think the world needs to see more of my face.
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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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Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
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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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Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
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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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Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.