Quotes By Martin Freeman

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I love a good suit.

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

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

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

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 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.

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.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

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

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.