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
people work
We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.
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To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.
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The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.
complicit people
When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
bad
It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.
saw
I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?
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I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing!
good pick
I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.
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I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
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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.
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Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
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The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
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It's been systematic low-balling, high-pressure tactics to get people to accept pennies on the dollar of what they're entitled to. And as a result, these families are being destroyed.
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It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.