Quotes from Martin Freeman

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

I like talky scenes.

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

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

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.

'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.

Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.

It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

I'm just a sucker for a good script.

I love a good suit.

It's a funny thing, 'The Office,' because millions and millions and millions and millions of people didn't watch it. But culturally, it is more of a phenomenon than almost anything else I can remember as far as British television is concerned.

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

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.

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should now say I care a lot about 3D. I've always loved 3D, I think everything should be 3D, and I think it's just a shame 'The Godfather' wasn't in 3D.

I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'

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

I like life to surprise me.

I look like the man in the moon.

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