Martin Freeman Quotes
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Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
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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 quite catholic taste in music.
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I'm not a writer, director or producer.
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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 wasn't like a Fifties dad.
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I've always been attracted to darkness.
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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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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 have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about 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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The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.
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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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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 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 was probably cool around the end of 2002.
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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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Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.
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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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Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.
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My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
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It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.
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I don't like affectation.
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I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.