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
job
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.
job life
My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
job love people priority
My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.
films job remain
There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.
job love supposed
As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it's supposed to.
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.
jobs believe life-is-too-short
Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night.
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.
complicit people
When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
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.
needed people performance
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.
dark fun spend time truly
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.
locking
As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.