Quotes by Martin Freeman

About Martin Freeman:

Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor, best known for portraying Tim Canterbury in the original UK version of sitcom mockumentary The Office, Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama Sherlock, Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, and Lester Nygaard in the dark comedy-crime drama TV series Fargo.
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In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.

Martin Freeman

I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.

Martin Freeman

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

Martin Freeman

I've always been attracted to darkness.

Martin Freeman

I like out, I like the outside world.

Martin Freeman

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

Martin Freeman

When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.

Martin Freeman

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

Martin Freeman

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

Martin Freeman

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

Martin Freeman

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

Martin Freeman

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

Martin Freeman

It would be a shame for me if I were to become 'Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.'

Martin Freeman

I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.

Martin Freeman

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

Martin Freeman

It's more fun to keep stuff secret.

Martin Freeman

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

Martin Freeman

My default state is wariness.

Martin Freeman

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

Martin Freeman

'The Hobbit's a big gig. It's a huge circus that you become a part of.

Martin Freeman

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

Martin Freeman

Author Bio

  • NameMartin Freeman
  • DescriptionEnglish actor
  • AliasesMartin John Christopher Freeman
  • BornSeptember 8, 1971
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Film Actor; Voice Actor