English - Actor | September 8, 1971 -
On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'
Martin Freeman
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It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.
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I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
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What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
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Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.
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You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.
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In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.
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True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
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If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.
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If you want your film to be instantly green-lit, your first approach is not to go to a relatively unknown English actor. They're not going to throw millions of dollars at you for that.
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I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.
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We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us.
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