Martin Freeman Quotes

I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.

While my megalomania knows no bounds, directing is one thing I have never really done. I directed a couple of plays. That was the extent of it.

I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.

I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I think that there's honor in being a good artist, and there's honor in being a good 'craftsperson.'

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.

In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.