Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman
Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor, best known for portraying Tim Canterbury in the original UK version of sitcom mockumentary The Office, Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama Sherlock, Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, and Lester Nygaard in the dark comedy-crime drama TV series Fargo...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 September 1971
CityAldershot, England
kids
If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
accept dollar entitled families pennies people systematic tactics
It's been systematic low-balling, high-pressure tactics to get people to accept pennies on the dollar of what they're entitled to. And as a result, these families are being destroyed.
asked
As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.
meant time
This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time.
since
I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.
families
As a result, these families are being destroyed.
job people
Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.
few improvised literally people start
I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.
job love supposed
As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it's supposed to.
bad
It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.
dock pass
'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.
life until
You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.
children
I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery.
life
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.