234 Quotes by Martin Freeman

It’s a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.

Comedy can’t be about continuous success.

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.

Acting is the only thing I’m even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

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

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

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.

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.

Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don’t really find that I’d be daunted with taking on roles or anything.