Martin Freeman

“There are always challenges to green screen.”

“Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?”

“I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.”

“I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.”

“Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.”

“I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.”

“I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your w...”

“Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.”

“In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.”

“Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.”

“I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.”

“I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.”

“You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.”

“I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.”

“Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if yo...”

“I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'”

“Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.”