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
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I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
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There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
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Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration...
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There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'
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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.
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When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
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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.
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To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.
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Even someone as truly dark as Lorne Malvo is still very attractive, and you want to spend time with him because he's a fun character.
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As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.
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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.
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Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
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We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us.
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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.