Martin Freeman

“I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.”

“I wasn't like a Fifties dad.”

“I don't like affectation.”

“With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.”

“I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.”

“I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.”

“I think the world needs to see more of my face.”

“I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.”

“Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.”

“I've always been attracted to darkness.”

“I work in public.”

“I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.”

“The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.”

“Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.”

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

“I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.”

“I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.”

“There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.”

“You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.”

“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!'”