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
envied god people slightly
I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'
since
I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.
exist great movies television
Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.
people roar sure wants
Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.
notice people switched though
Once you've switched that switch, then, though you notice that other people are great, you're just not interested.
job people
Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.
acting easier good react
Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.
saying truth whatever
If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth.
believe genuinely good
I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?'
I could say, 'I want to play a French-African humpback,' but I probably won't get that role.
force guiding whether
I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.
good million whether
I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20 or a million dollars.
life until
You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.
explaining hard loses
It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.