Top 50 Martin Freeman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sherlock and Watson are a love story.”

— Martin Freeman

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2. “True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.”

— Martin Freeman

3. “I’m a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.”

— Martin Freeman

4. “People misunderstand me.”

— Martin Freeman

5. “I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone’s property.”

— Martin Freeman

6. “Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration...”

— Martin Freeman

7. “I love home. I’d rather be at home than anywhere else.”

— Martin Freeman

8. “Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?”

— Martin Freeman

9. “I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.”

— Martin Freeman

10. “My idea of a good night out is staying in.”

— Martin Freeman

11. “I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.”

— Martin Freeman

12. “I’m not posh or common, I’m in between.”

— Martin Freeman

13. “Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.”

— Martin Freeman

14. “I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.”

— Martin Freeman

15. “Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I’m concerned.”

— Martin Freeman

16. “I’ve always got my eye on my deathbed.”

— Martin Freeman

17. “I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.”

— Martin Freeman

18. “What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.”

— Martin Freeman

19. “I look like the man in the moon.”

— Martin Freeman

20. “I’m one of the few people I know who believes in God.”

— Martin Freeman

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

— Martin Freeman

22. “I’ve always loved Christmas and that’s not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It’s always a magical time and I’m unashamed in my love for Christmas.”

— Martin Freeman

23. “Name anything – high-definition TV, computer obsolescence – and I’m pretty much annoyed by it.”

— Martin Freeman

24. “The one thing I’ve found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don’t.”

— Martin Freeman

25. “I was probably cool around the end of 2002.”

— Martin Freeman

26. “When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.”

— Martin Freeman

27. “Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.”

— Martin Freeman

28. “I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They’re just more settled with each other now.”

— Martin Freeman

29. “I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.”

— Martin Freeman

30. “If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It’s just scale.”

— Martin Freeman

31. “Thank you, people of Emmyland. To be nominated in such company is an honour, especially for two shows that I’m immensely proud of. I’m delighted.”

— Martin Freeman

32. “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

33. “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

34. “There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It’s something we are all too familiar with.”

— Martin Freeman

35. “Acting is the only thing I’m even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.”

— Martin Freeman

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

— Martin Freeman

37. “I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.”

— Martin Freeman

38. “It’s a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.”

— Martin Freeman

39. “I think if you were known for playing something other than being a nice guy then people might be a little less likely to take liberties with you. If you are Ray Winstone, and people have seen you kick a few people to death, then they are a little less likely to approach you or whatever.”

— Martin Freeman

40. “You don’t want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.”

— Martin Freeman

41. “I hope I inspire children to make films.”

— Martin Freeman

42. “I like out, I like the outside world.”

— Martin Freeman

43. “Comedy can’t be about continuous success.”

— Martin Freeman

44. “Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don’t really find that I’d be daunted with taking on roles or anything.”

— Martin Freeman

45. “I buy DVDs. I don’t really buy CDs unless they’re for other people.”

— Martin Freeman

46. “There’s a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There’s quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.”

— Martin Freeman

47. “However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I’m pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.”

— Martin Freeman

48. “I’ve been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I’ve virtually never read one and gone, ‘Yep, factually and tonally that’s exactly what happened.’ Pretty much never.”

— Martin Freeman

49. “I don’t think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.”

— Martin Freeman

50. “Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.”

— Martin Freeman