Martin Freeman Quotes & Sayings

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German. — Martin Freeman

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned. — Martin Freeman

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious. — Martin Freeman

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess. — Martin Freeman

If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth. — Martin Freeman

I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your welcome is a vital ingredient. — Martin Freeman

I have quite catholic taste in music. — Martin Freeman

Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side. — Martin Freeman

The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times. — Martin Freeman

If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that. — Martin Freeman

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.' — Martin Freeman

I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish. — Martin Freeman

I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with. — Martin Freeman

I love a good suit. — Martin Freeman

It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers. — Martin Freeman

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words? — Martin Freeman

I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally. — Martin Freeman

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant. — Martin Freeman

The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years. — Martin Freeman

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people. — Martin Freeman

I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes. — Martin Freeman

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings. — Martin Freeman

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists. — Martin Freeman

As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene. — Martin Freeman

When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent. — Martin Freeman

I don't like affectation. — Martin Freeman

I like life to surprise me. — Martin Freeman

My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better. — Martin Freeman

My relationship with my belief has never been easy. — Martin Freeman

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all. — Martin Freeman

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal. — Martin Freeman

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind. — Martin Freeman

The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art. — Martin Freeman

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life. — Martin Freeman

I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean? — Martin Freeman

I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer. — Martin Freeman

I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet. — Martin Freeman

I'm geek royalty now. — Martin Freeman

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish. — Martin Freeman

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style. — Martin Freeman

I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line. — Martin Freeman

'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show. — Martin Freeman

I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery. — Martin Freeman

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit. — Martin Freeman

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before. — Martin Freeman

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed. — Martin Freeman

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about. — Martin Freeman

Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy. — Martin Freeman

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway. — Martin Freeman

'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. — Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize. — Martin Freeman

Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything. — Martin Freeman

I don't like 'cool telly.' — Martin Freeman

All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!' — Martin Freeman

If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists. — Martin Freeman

I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much. — Martin Freeman

On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.' — Martin Freeman

We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us. — Martin Freeman

I work in public. — Martin Freeman

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone. — Martin Freeman

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow. — Martin Freeman

I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags. — Martin Freeman

Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into. — Martin Freeman

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. — Martin Freeman

I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that. — Martin Freeman

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. — Martin Freeman

I think if you were known for playing something other than being a nice guy then people might be a little less likely to take liberties with you. If you are Ray Winstone, and people have seen you kick a few people to death, then they are a little less likely to approach you or whatever. — Martin Freeman

I look like the man in the moon. — Martin Freeman

With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that. — Martin Freeman

As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it's supposed to. — Martin Freeman

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates. — Martin Freeman

Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone. — Martin Freeman

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. — Martin Freeman

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job. — Martin Freeman

I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that. — Martin Freeman

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it. — Martin Freeman

There are always challenges to green screen. — Martin Freeman

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. — Martin Freeman

I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really. — Martin Freeman

It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy. — Martin Freeman

I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated! — Martin Freeman

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. — Martin Freeman

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames. — Martin Freeman

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised. — Martin Freeman

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. — Martin Freeman

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling. — Martin Freeman

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. — Martin Freeman

Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world. — Martin Freeman

I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama. — Martin Freeman

My default state is wariness. — Martin Freeman

Sherlock and Watson are a love story — Martin Freeman

I wasn't like a Fifties dad. — Martin Freeman

I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up. — Martin Freeman

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock. — Martin Freeman

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star. — Martin Freeman

I think the world needs to see more of my face. — Martin Freeman

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. — Martin Freeman

Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual. — Martin Freeman

My idea of a good night out is staying in. — Martin Freeman

It would be a shame for me if I were to become 'Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.' — Martin Freeman