Martin Freeman Quotes

I'm drawn to stuff with a certain darkness, and darkness with beauty within it.

The Nocturnal' was very nearly beyond me.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

The Cube was a wonder - a wonder for itself and a wonder for myself. To me, it was much more strange than to anybody else.

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

Volvo is like a mysterious, beautiful woman. We just look at her from far away, amazed. We don't dare get close to her. We're just a bunch of farm boys.

I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.

They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.

I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.

I am attracted to the dark side of life!

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

'Nice Guys' has darkness in it and parts that are kind of odd, but there are also parts where it's heartfelt and soulful. You can switch back and forth.

Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.

Golf tough guys - like movie tough guys - are almost always inscrutable, just beyond our full understanding.

It's not often that I'm being called femme fatale.

A lot of people say I am very mysterious. It takes a lot to know me.