Martin Freeman Quotes
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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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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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I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much.
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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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In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.
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If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.
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If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
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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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I don't like 'cool telly.'
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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 like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.
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Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
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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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Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
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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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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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'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 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.
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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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I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.
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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.