Martin Freeman Quotes
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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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I was probably cool around the end of 2002.
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You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
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I'm geek royalty now.
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I like talky scenes.
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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 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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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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I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.
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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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I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
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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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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 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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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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The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.
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My idea of a good night out is staying in.
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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'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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Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.
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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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We can all look on the Internet and go, 'He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,' you know. And that way, madness lies.
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I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.