Quotes By 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.

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.

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

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.

People misunderstand me.

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

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 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.

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.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

I look like the man in the moon.

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 was probably cool around the end of 2002.

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'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.