Quotes By Martin Freeman

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.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

I look like the man in the moon.

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.

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

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.

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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 can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

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.

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

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.