Quotes by Martin Freeman

“Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as Im concerned.”

“Some people have that roar in their head, but Im not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.”

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

“Once youve switched that switch, then, though you notice that other people are great, youre just not interested.”

“If I could get bands to come and play in my house, Id like that. Ive never been to a festival. Im a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofas squishy. Maybe too squishy - its hard to get up sometimes.”

“[Officials throughout NFIP] deliberately and fraudulently used low-balling, high-pressure tactics to get people to accept pennies on the dollar of what theyre entitled to,”

“The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,”

“Its been systematic low-balling, high-pressure tactics to get people to accept pennies on the dollar of what theyre entitled to. And as a result, these families are being destroyed.”

“As a result, these families are being destroyed.”

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

Ive had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and theyve been amazing!

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

I dont like cool telly.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

Ive always loved Christmas and thats not really gone away from me from being a child to now. Its always a magical time and Im unashamed in my love for Christmas.

Whenever someone says to my mum: Hows your son doing? she says: Which one? If youre a parent, youre not going to go: Oh Ill concentrate on the famous one.

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we dont want to commit.

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

The design of Love Actually, the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.