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.Collection: Friendship
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Relationship
You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.Collection: History
I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.Collection: Friendship
I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.Collection: Alone
I was probably cool around the end of 2002.Collection: Cool
I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.Collection: Computers
I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.Collection: Christmas
I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.
I think the world needs to see more of my face.
I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery.
I hope I inspire children to make films.
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.
I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.
I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.
Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.
I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing!
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.
When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.
Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.
I don't like affectation.
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.
When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
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.
I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.
I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.
Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
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.'
I've always been attracted to darkness.
It would be a shame for me if I were to become 'Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.'
Even someone as truly dark as Lorne Malvo is still very attractive, and you want to spend time with him because he's a fun character.
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.
I don't like 'cool telly.'
I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.
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.
I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?
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.
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.
Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.
I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.
I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.
I'm just a sucker for a good script.
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.
I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much.
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.
I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.
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.
I love eating. I mean, I really, really love eating.