Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman
Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor, best known for portraying Tim Canterbury in the original UK version of sitcom mockumentary The Office, Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama Sherlock, Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, and Lester Nygaard in the dark comedy-crime drama TV series Fargo...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 September 1971
CityAldershot, England
'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.
job life
My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
art music
My first engagement with any art was music.
good
My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
breeds friendship love marriage
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
god people
Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.
interested opposed process
I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.
costume forgetting nor particular
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.
interest less replicate trying work
I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much.
bring expect minute riches work
You have to, in a way, just get your head down and do the work and not expect every day to bring riches and not expect every minute to bring wild excitement, 'cause it just doesn't. It doesn't on films, anyway.
life love none people
There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'
certain certainty except love overly pompous trust
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.
absolutely comics currency endless fantasy geeks people popular revenge truth
With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
affected age films mean nine
We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us.