Martin Freeman Quotes
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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 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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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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Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.
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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'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 think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.
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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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'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 have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.
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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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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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It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.
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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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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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I wasn't like a Fifties dad.
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I've always been attracted to darkness.
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I don't like affectation.
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I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.
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I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.
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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 was probably cool around the end of 2002.
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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.'