Martin Freeman Quotes

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

When you write a script, you hope that people will give it life beyond the script.

As an actor I can bring the story, the narrative in each performance. If I can't do that, then… might as well give up as an actor, hadn't I?

As filmmakers and as actors, you have to find truth.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

In reality, for me every role is completely different.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.