I don’t write anything off without reading a script, and if it’s a good one, I’ll consider it, whether it’s for $20 or a million dollars. – Martin Freeman
There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the ‘Daily Mail.’ – Martin Freeman
I’m always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star. – Martin Freeman
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
I’m not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I’ve got that side to me, of course, but that’s not all I am. – 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
I’m afraid I don’t have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don’t imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything. – Martin Freeman
Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I’ve always been interested in men with a vulnerable side. – Martin Freeman
I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, ‘Wow!’ – Martin Freeman
I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that. – Martin Freeman
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
It’s hard talking about acting, in a way, because it’s like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling. – Martin Freeman
You don’t want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad. – Martin Freeman
I don’t want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you’re doing it with. – Martin Freeman
I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it’s true. – Martin Freeman
I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before ‘The Office,’ I mainly got cast as little toe-rags. – Martin Freeman
We can all look on the Internet and go, ‘He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,’ you know. And that way, madness lies. – Martin Freeman
Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don’t want to commit. – Martin Freeman