Quotes By Martin Freeman

People misunderstand me.

I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.

When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

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

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

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.

I look like the man in the moon.

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.

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.

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

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.

I like out, I like the outside world.

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.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

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

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

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.