Martin Freeman Quotes
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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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What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
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I have quite catholic taste in music.
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I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'
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I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
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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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I was probably cool around the end of 2002.
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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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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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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 have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.
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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 like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.
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I don't like affectation.
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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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It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.
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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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Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.
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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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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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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.
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I'm geek royalty now.
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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.