Martin Freeman Quotes

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.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

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.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

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.

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

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

Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night.

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.

All I can do is just do what I can do and not be hampered by knowing that some people won't like it.

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.

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.

People misunderstand me.

When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.

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.

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

I like out, I like the outside world.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

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

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

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.

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.

On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

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

Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual.

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.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

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

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

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.