Quotes by Martin Freeman - Page 4

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Thrive
Uncertainty
First Place
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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 / Actor
Friendship
Honour
Love And Friendship
Timeless
Love People Things
Friendship Love People
Quite
Deal
Hobbit
Resonate
Themes
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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.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Gone
Interviews
Years
Time Doing Never
Exactly What
Virtually
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I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?'
Martin Freeman / Actor
Sopranos
Genuinely
The Sopranos
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There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Awake
Work Great Me
No-One
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I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'
Martin Freeman / Actor
Envied
Hey
God Always People
God People Always
Reputations
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If you want your film to be instantly green-lit, your first approach is not to go to a relatively unknown English actor. They're not going to throw millions of dollars at you for that.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Dollars
Unknown
Instantly
Millions Of Dollars
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To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Me People Acting
Hobbit
To Be Honest
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The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Paper
Signing
Me Never Reason
Binds
Entertain
Pilot
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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 / Actor
Life Me My Life
Life Me People
All My Life
Genuinely
Imagining
More People
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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.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Care
Getting Older
Who I Am
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It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Impression
Always People Doing
Churchill
Gandhi
People Real Doing
Talked
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There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Lines
Technically
Remain
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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 / Actor
Charismatic
Inhuman
Smart People
Naturally
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The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
Martin Freeman / Actor
American Television
Cards
Fantastic
House Of Cards
Sopranos
Wire
Breaking
Breaking Bad
The Sopranos
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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 / Actor
Excitement
Riches
Work Day Every Day
Work Your Day
Anyway
Wild
Minute
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Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested in being in an art installation to be honest. I'm interested in the story.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Art
Being Honest
Honest
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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 / Actor
Freeman
Obvious
Villain
Bad Guy
False
Martin
Reviewer
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I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your welcome is a vital ingredient.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Forever
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Seven
Welcome
Time Long Lost
Ingredient
Quite A Long Time
Recording
Vital
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With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Cinema
Currency
Fantasy
Magazines
Revenge
Sci Fi
Geeks
Popular
Superheroes
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I'm very proud of 'The Office' - it was one of the best things I'll ever do. But you do become a slight victim of your own success in the sense that people think that's you, that's what you are, and that's what you'll play forever.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Slight
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It's a funny thing, 'The Office,' because millions and millions and millions and millions of people didn't watch it. But culturally, it is more of a phenomenon than almost anything else I can remember as far as British television is concerned.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Phenomenon
Almost Anything
Anything Else
Funny Thing
Millions And Millions
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I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should now say I care a lot about 3D. I've always loved 3D, I think everything should be 3D, and I think it's just a shame 'The Godfather' wasn't in 3D.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Godfather
Hobbit
Suppose
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On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'
Martin Freeman / Actor
Time Good Long
Gee
Gig
Hobbit
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Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Please
Zone
Life War God
Civilian
Forces
War Zone
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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.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Nice
People
Thinking
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I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Life Love Work
Anyway
Billy
Immediately
Listener
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I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there is a real atmosphere to their films. Not everyone can get that. That's a massive part of their appeal: you can recognise them. Like all the great directors or artists, you know it when you see it.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Admirer
Atmosphere
Massive
Recognise
Great I Am Know
Appeal
Brothers
Coen
Fanatic
Worlds
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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 / Actor
Forgotten
Thanks
Good Me People
Good Me Important
Mentally
Emotionally
Good Idea
Opened
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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.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Cutting
Hands
Thinking
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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.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Old School
Cutting
Giving
Military
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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.
Martin Freeman / Actor
Jobs
Believe
Life Is Too Short
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