Martin Freeman Quotes

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Martin Freeman

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 8, 1971

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.

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

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

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

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Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

Martin Freeman

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.

Martin Freeman

Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.

Martin Freeman

I could say, 'I want to play a French-African humpback,' but I probably won't get that role.

Martin Freeman

I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

Martin Freeman

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

Martin Freeman

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Martin Freeman

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

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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.

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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

This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time.

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

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

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Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

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I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Martin Freeman

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

Martin Freeman