Quotes from Martin Freeman

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

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 read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.

I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.

The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.

I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.

It would be a shame for me if I were to become 'Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.'

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.

I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.

Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'

Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.

To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

Even someone as truly dark as Lorne Malvo is still very attractive, and you want to spend time with him because he's a fun character.

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

I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.