Martin Freeman Quotes

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Martin Freeman

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 8, 1971

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.

Martin Freeman

I love eating. I mean, I really, really love eating.

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'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

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My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

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There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'

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My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.

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I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

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I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.

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If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.

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I like life to surprise me.

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It's more fun to keep stuff secret.

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I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

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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.

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I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

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I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally.

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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!'

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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

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.

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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.

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Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.

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