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Martin Freeman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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 think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
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.
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.
Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.
Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.
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.
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.
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.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.
I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.
Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.
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.
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.
In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.
'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.
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.
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.
I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
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.
Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.