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
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I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there is a real atmosphere to their films. Not everyone can get that. That's a massive part of their appeal: you can recognise them. Like all the great directors or artists, you know it when you see it.
bring expect minute riches work
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.
job
Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
dark fun spend time truly
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.
locking
As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.
affected age films mean nine
We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us.
people work
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.
inhuman mind
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.
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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.
complicit people
When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
predicted
'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.
'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.
job life
My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
breeds friendship love marriage
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.