Martin Freeman Quotes
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I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
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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'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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My relationship with my belief has never been easy.
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My idea of a good night out is staying in.
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Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.
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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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What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
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I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.
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I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.
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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 like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
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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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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'm geek royalty now.
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I like talky scenes.
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Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
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I look like the man in the moon.
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'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.
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There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.
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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 don't like 'cool telly.'
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I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.
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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.