Quotes By Martin Freeman

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

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

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.

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.

People misunderstand me.

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.

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.

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.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

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.