Martin Freeman Quotes
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I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.
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I'm not a writer, director or producer.
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If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
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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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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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Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
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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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My idea of a good night out is staying in.
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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 buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.
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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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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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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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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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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 want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.
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Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.
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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.