There’s a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There’s quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things. – Martin Freeman
Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don’t really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I’m certain of love, I guess. – Martin Freeman
Don’t get me wrong – I’m a big fan of things American – but when American people do British stuff, it’s so universally dreadful. – Martin Freeman
I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize. – Martin Freeman
I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it – I do love a good swirl in a fog. – Martin Freeman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
