Martin Freeman Quotes
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I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.
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I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.
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It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.
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I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
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If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.
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I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.
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If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
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We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us.
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It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.
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Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
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Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
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If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth.
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I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there is a real atmosphere to their films. Not everyone can get that. That's a massive part of their appeal: you can recognise them. Like all the great directors or artists, you know it when you see it.
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Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
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You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
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I like life to surprise me.
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Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
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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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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 like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.
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I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20 or a million dollars.
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My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.
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In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.
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Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.