Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Martin Freeman - Page 3

I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.

I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.

I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing!

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

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'

I'm just a sucker for a good script.

I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

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

I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

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.

I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should now say I care a lot about 3D. I've always loved 3D, I think everything should be 3D, and I think it's just a shame 'The Godfather' wasn't in 3D.

My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.

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.

Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

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

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

I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.

I don't like affectation.

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

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

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

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.'

I love eating. I mean, I really, really love eating.

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.

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

I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally.

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.

I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.

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

I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much.

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.

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.

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

I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.

I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery.

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.

I don't like 'cool telly.'

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

I like life to surprise me.

Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.

It's more fun to keep stuff secret.

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.

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.

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

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.

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.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.