Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration. "
Martin Freeman
Comedy
Disappointment
Inspiration
Related Quotes:
" I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog. "
Martin Freeman
Fog
Good
If I Could
" 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. "
Martin Freeman
More
Said
Watch
" My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair. "
Martin Freeman
Private Life
Why
Life
" 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. "
Martin Freeman
Friendship
Time
People
" I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really. "
Martin Freeman
Favorite
Farm
Book
" 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. "
Martin Freeman
Every Day
Day
Down
" 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. "
Martin Freeman
Villain
Know
Nice
" Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish. "
Martin Freeman
Great
Art
Rubbish
" My idea of a good night out is staying in. "
Martin Freeman
Idea
Out
Night
" 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. "
Martin Freeman
Smart
Who
Mind
" I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off. "
Martin Freeman
Someone
Fashion
Off
" I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini. "
Martin Freeman
Steps
Martini
Guy
" Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up. "
Martin Freeman
Film
Film Set
Last
" I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment. "
Martin Freeman
Actor
Disappointment
Think
" 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. "
Martin Freeman
Film
Know
Way
" I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to. "
Martin Freeman
Life Changes
Changes
Life
" I've always been attracted to darkness. "
Martin Freeman
Attracted
Always
Been
" 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! "
Martin Freeman
People
Saying
Chill
" 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. "
Martin Freeman
Think
Friendship
Love
" If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale. "
Martin Freeman
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. "
Martin Freeman
Life
Sometimes
Red
" I'm not posh or common, I'm in between. "
Martin Freeman
Common
Posh
Between
" Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy. "
Martin Freeman
Trouble
Themselves
Lend
" I'm geek royalty now. "
Martin Freeman
Royalty
Geek
Now