Martin Freeman Quotes

As long as I can make the films I want to make in decent conditions, I am happy.

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

Art is something that grows and breathes and lives, and it shouldn't be predicated on the success of box office - but it is. But within that, you have to give people a chance to find their voice, to play, to continue to create.

I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'

There's a lot of jobs that you can do that you can be miserable at. Making movies should not be one of them.

It's nice to have a variety in creative work that I like to do.

It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is going to think that it's awful. You gotta be able to just sit back and kind of laugh it off and know you're doing exactly what you wanna do, and if people don't like it, then it's not really my place to tell them they have to like it.

Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.

I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.

A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick.

I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.

When you're working in service to a big project, there's always the question of, 'Is there total freedom to do what I think is right artistically, or is this a job?' It's okay for things to be a job. I'm perfectly comfortable working. I don't need to sit around and quench whatever personal artistic thirst I have at all times.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the same thing with music. When I'm writing a song or I'm in the studio, those memories, that's epic.

It's always better just to do work that you're really proud of and work that you enjoy because really all you have are the choices you make and that's it and who knows after that. I think that's what I love in acting.

Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

Music is my life. The last job I had, I was a bricklayer's apprentice. And I was happy with that job, too, because it was something that made me feel good. To build a wall for the side of a building felt really good to me.

I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The idea is for an editor to let his artist alone, let them be themselves, let them exchange their own ideas and you'll come up with something salable.