Best 42 quotes of Martin Freeman on MyQuotes

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.

I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.

I look like the man in the moon.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

I think if you were known for playing something other than being a nice guy then people might be a little less likely to take liberties with you. If you are Ray Winstone, and people have seen you kick a few people to death, then they are a little less likely to approach you or whatever.

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested in being in an art installation to be honest. I'm interested in the story.

On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Thank you, people of Emmyland. To be nominated in such company is an honour, especially for two shows that I’m immensely proud of. I’m delighted.

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

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.

[On his Emmy win] I thought ‘ah, very, very nice’ and then I went to sleep.