Quotes from Martin Freeman

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

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.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

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

I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

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.

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your welcome is a vital ingredient.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.

I've always been attracted to darkness.

My default state is wariness.

I have quite catholic taste in music.

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

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

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.

My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

I'm not a writer, director or producer.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.