Top 100 Martin Freeman Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Martin Freeman

#1. 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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#2. I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

Evangeline Lilly

#3. Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

Lara Pulver

#4. Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.

James Nesbitt

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

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#15. I don't like affectation.

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#16. 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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#17. 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.

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#18. The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

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#22. I love the smaller scenes. I love the smaller, slightly more theatrical scenes.

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

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#24. Thank you, people of Emmyland. To be nominated in such company is an honour, especially for two shows that I'm immensely proud of. I'm delighted.

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#25. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero

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#26. 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.'

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#27. I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.

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

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#29. True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

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

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#31. 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.

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#32. People misunderstand me.

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

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

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

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#37. 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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#38. '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.

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#39. You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

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#40. I could say, 'I want to play a French-African humpback,' but I probably won't get that role.

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

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

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

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

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#46. I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.

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#47. You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

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#48. My relationship with my belief has never been easy.

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#49. I think the world needs to see more of my face.

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#50. 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.

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#51. I love a good suit.

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#52. 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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#53. I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.

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#54. 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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#55. Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.

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#56. I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

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

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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

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

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

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#63. Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

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#64. 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.

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#65. It's more fun to keep stuff secret.

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

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

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#69. I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

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#70. I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.

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#71. I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

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

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#73. 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.

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#74. I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.

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#75. 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.

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

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#78. If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.

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#79. I've always been attracted to darkness.

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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. 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.

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#83. 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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#84. There are always challenges to green screen.

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#85. 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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#86. 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.

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#87. Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.

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#88. 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.

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

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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

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#94. 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.

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#95. 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.

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