Quotes from Martin Freeman

I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?'

I love the smaller scenes. I love the smaller, slightly more theatrical scenes.

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.

Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.

There are always challenges to green screen.

I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.

I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.

We can all look on the Internet and go, 'He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,' you know. And that way, madness lies.

Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.

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

Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.

'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's not the kind of ship that comes into dock very often.

'The Hobbit's a big gig. It's a huge circus that you become a part of.

I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there is a real atmosphere to their films. Not everyone can get that. That's a massive part of their appeal: you can recognise them. Like all the great directors or artists, you know it when you see it.

I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.