Martin Freeman Quotes
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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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Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
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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 hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
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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'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 have quite catholic taste in music.
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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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It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.
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I wasn't like a Fifties dad.
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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've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.
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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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I'm geek royalty now.
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'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.
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We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.
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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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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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My idea of a good night out is staying in.
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Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.
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I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.
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I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.
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I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.
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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.