Martin Freeman Quotes

I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt.

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

Anyone can enjoy a wrestling match, but it's how you feel about that person that takes it to another level.

I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them - and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It's always been like that, and I hope I won't be wrong in the future.

I don't take anything personal.

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.

If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

You might be a redneck if you're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.

I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.

He liked her; it was as simple as that.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.