I’m a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
Martin Freeman
My idea of a good night out is staying in.
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’m geek royalty now.
Martin Freeman
I don’t get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.
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
Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.
Martin Freeman
I’m quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.
Martin Freeman
I’m just a sucker for a good script.
Martin Freeman
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.
Martin Freeman
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.
Martin Freeman
I’m not posh or common, I’m in between.
Martin Freeman
Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
Martin Freeman
If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It’s just scale.
Martin Freeman
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.
Martin Freeman
I think I’m less gloomy than I used to be – I’ve got a very supportive other half.
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
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
My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That’s not fair.
Martin Freeman
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.
Martin Freeman
I’ve always been attracted to darkness.
Martin Freeman
I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it – I do love a good swirl in a fog.
Martin Freeman
Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
Martin Freeman
I don’t think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
Martin Freeman
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.
Martin Freeman
I read ‘Animal Farm’ when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.
Martin Freeman
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
Martin Freeman
I don’t have sentimental attachments to characters at all.
Martin Freeman
I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
Martin Freeman
If you’re alive for more than five minutes, you’re going to be disappointed.
Martin Freeman
My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
Martin Freeman
There was very little drama and performance at my school, so I’ve never forgotten the people who did encourage me and I’ve thought whether it would be a good idea to even get in touch with them and just say thanks, because they really opened a door for me mentally and emotionally – that’s really important.
Martin Freeman
You have to, in a way, just get your head down and do the work and not expect every day to bring riches and not expect every minute to bring wild excitement, ’cause it just doesn’t. It doesn’t on films, anyway.
Martin Freeman
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.
Martin Freeman
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
Martin Freeman
I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
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’ve always got my eye on my deathbed.
Martin Freeman
Not all art is great; most of it’s rubbish.
Martin Freeman
Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.
Martin Freeman
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
Martin Freeman
I like life to surprise me.
Martin Freeman
You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
Martin Freeman
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
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
People misunderstand me.
Martin Freeman
I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
Martin Freeman
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.
Martin Freeman
I’m one of the few people I know who believes in God.
Martin Freeman
Name anything – high-definition TV, computer obsolescence – and I’m pretty much annoyed by it.
Martin Freeman
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.
Martin Freeman
Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
Martin Freeman
Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.
Martin Freeman