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. – Martin Freeman
If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It’s just scale. – Martin Freeman
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway. – Martin Freeman
As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort. – Martin Freeman
In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is ‘Sherlock’ – ‘Hobbit’ fans are positively restrained. – Martin Freeman
Name anything – high-definition TV, computer obsolescence – and I’m pretty much annoyed by it. – Martin Freeman
Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up. – Martin Freeman
I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films. – 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 everyone’s just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there’s no drama in the world. And there’s also no truth to it, ’cause that’s just not the truth. – Martin Freeman
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
I don’t want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, ‘Chill out’ to me when I’m irritated! – Martin Freeman
As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I’m really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it’s supposed to. – Martin Freeman
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
I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I’d be completely unsuitable to talk about that. – Martin Freeman
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings. – Martin Freeman
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. – Martin Freeman
