Martin Freeman Quotes

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

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.

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

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

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.

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

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

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

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.

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

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

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.

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

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.

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

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.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

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

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.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

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.

I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.

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

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

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

I like out, I like the outside world.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

People misunderstand me.

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

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

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

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

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.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

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.

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

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