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" All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!' "
Now
Me
Looking
" Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration. "
Comedy
Disappointment
Inspiration
" I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off. "
Someone
Fashion
Off
" 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. "
Villain
Know
Nice
" I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini. "
Steps
Martini
Guy
" I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment. "
Actor
Disappointment
Think
" I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated! "
People
Saying
Chill
" If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale. "
Just
You
Work
" I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet. "
Life
Sometimes
Red
" I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to. "
Life Changes
Changes
Life
" I'm geek royalty now. "
Royalty
Geek
Now
" I'm not posh or common, I'm in between. "
Common
Posh
Between
" I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really. "
Favorite
Farm
Book
" 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. "
Friendship
Time
People
" I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people. "
Think
Friendship
Love
" I've always been attracted to darkness. "
Attracted
Always
Been
" 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. "
More
Said
Watch
" I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog. "
Fog
Good
If I Could
" My idea of a good night out is staying in. "
Idea
Out
Night
" My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair. "
Private Life
Why
Life
" Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish. "
Great
Art
Rubbish
" 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. "
Smart
Who
Mind
" Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy. "
Trouble
Themselves
Lend
" 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. "
Film
Know
Way
" You have to, in a way, just get your head down and do the work and not expect every day to bring riches and not expect every minute to bring wild excitement, 'cause it just doesn't. It doesn't on films, anyway. "
Every Day
Day
Down
" Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up. "
Film
Film Set
Last
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