Martin Freeman Quotes

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

When you get out of the car after the feeling that you have after leading the race, and the car fails, it's pretty hard to say positive things all the time.

The road hasn't always been paved for me. People identify with that. Everybody passes through hard times, and I think that's part of my appeal - that I have, too.

You don't expect to have a happy changing room when things are not going so well.

I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.

The underlying goal of comedy is feeling not-alone.

If I can relate to the joke, it's going to be funny.

I hate losing more than I love winning.

I feel my situation is no different from anybody else's experiences.

If you're unhappy with the way you played, what's the point?

I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.

My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!

I am eagerly awaiting my next disappointment.

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"

People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.