Martin Freeman Quotes
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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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I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
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You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
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I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
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I don't like 'cool telly.'
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I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.
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It would be a shame for me if I were to become 'Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.'
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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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Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
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To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.
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Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
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In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.
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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'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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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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In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
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I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.
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I could say, 'I want to play a French-African humpback,' but I probably won't get that role.
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As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.
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I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.
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The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.
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'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's not the kind of ship that comes into dock very often.
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I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.