Top 100 Martin Freeman Quotes
#1. If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
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#3. 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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#4. 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.
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#5. I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
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#6. I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.
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#7. I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.
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#8. Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
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#10. 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.
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#11. I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.
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#12. I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.
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#13. I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.
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#14. True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
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#15. I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing!
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#17. If you want your film to be instantly green-lit, your first approach is not to go to a relatively unknown English actor. They're not going to throw millions of dollars at you for that.
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#18. Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.
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#19. If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
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#20. You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.
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#21. 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.
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#23. Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.
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#24. My relationship with my belief has never been easy.
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#25. 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.
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#26. I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.
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#27. 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.
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#28. Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
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#29. I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?
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#30. I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
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#31. 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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#32. I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
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#34. Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.
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#35. 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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#36. I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.
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#37. I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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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#40. I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.
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#41. If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.
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#47. I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship ... so they're things that do resonate with people.
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#49. 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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#50. When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
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#51. 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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#52. What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
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#55. I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
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#56. My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
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#57. I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.
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#58. You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
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#59. In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.
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#60. 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.
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#61. 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!'
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#63. Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.
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#64. Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.
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#65. The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.
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#66. I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
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#68. I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.
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#69. I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.
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#71. 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.
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#73. I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
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#74. 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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#75. Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.
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#76. I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?'
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#77. I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much.
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#78. 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.
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#79. I love eating. I mean, I really, really love eating.
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#80. Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
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#81. Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
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#82. I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.
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#83. If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.
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#84. 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.
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#85. I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.
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#87. Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
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#88. I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
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#89. 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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#90. It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.
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#91. I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.
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#92. Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.
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#93. There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.
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#94. Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
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#95. Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.
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#96. I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery.
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#97. It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.
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#98. I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.
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#99. 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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#100. 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.
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