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. – Martin Freeman
My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before. – Martin Freeman
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. – Martin Freeman
I don’t think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses. – Martin Freeman
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
Coming back from doing ‘The Hobbit,’ you think ‘Sherlock’ is realistic, but of course, it’s not that realistic. – Martin Freeman
I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor’s work, thank you very much. – Martin Freeman
‘The Hobbit’ would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It’s not the kind of ship that comes into dock very often. – Martin Freeman
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
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
I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months. – Martin Freeman
I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet. – Martin Freeman
I could say, ‘I want to play a French-African humpback,’ but I probably won’t get that role. – Martin Freeman
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
I don’t think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment. – Martin Freeman
Acting is the only thing I’m even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about. – Martin Freeman
As soon as you get two actors in a room and they’re locking eyes, they’re doing a scene. – 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
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
