Martin Freeman
18 quotes
Biography
Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor. Among other accolades, he has won two Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
"I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people."
"I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other."
"Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything."
"I was probably cool around the end of 2002."
"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'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."
"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"
"I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing!"
"I don't like 'cool telly.'"
"I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that."
"Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit."
"My idea of a good night out is staying in."
"The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times."
"I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to."
"You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad."
"I wasn't like a Fifties dad."
"Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'"
"Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess."