Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Martin Freeman
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.
Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.
I'm geek royalty now.
I've always been attracted to darkness.
Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.
I love a good suit.
I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
I have quite catholic taste in music.
You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.
I've always got my eye on my deathbed.
When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.
I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.
Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
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.
I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.
I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.
I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.
You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
I think the world needs to see more of my face.
Comedy can't be about continuous success.
There are always challenges to green screen.
Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.
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.
I'm very proud of 'The Office' - it was one of the best things I'll ever do. But you do become a slight victim of your own success in the sense that people think that's you, that's what you are, and that's what you'll play forever.
I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.
People misunderstand me.
This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time.
I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.
I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.
I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
I look like the man in the moon.
There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
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.
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.
I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
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.
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.
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.
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.
Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.
In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
I was probably cool around the end of 2002.
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