Quotes from Martin Freeman

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing!

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.

I like out, I like the outside world.

If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.

I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

I don't like affectation.

I'm very proud of 'The Office' - it was one of the best things I'll ever do. But you do become a slight victim of your own success in the sense that people think that's you, that's what you are, and that's what you'll play forever.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?

My first engagement with any art was music.

I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.

Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

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 was probably cool around the end of 2002.

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.