Martin Freeman Quotes
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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've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
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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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Even someone as truly dark as Lorne Malvo is still very attractive, and you want to spend time with him because he's a fun character.
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I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.
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I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.
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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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If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.
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Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.
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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 buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.
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There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
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When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.
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Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
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If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
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If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
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I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
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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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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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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 job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
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I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.
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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.