Martin Freeman Quotes

I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.

Doing fight scenes in movies is a lot different than in WWE, but it was still relatively easy.

On 'Angel' I got to work a lot with Mike Massa, who was David Boreanaz' stunt double, and Mike would let me do most of my stuff by myself. I did almost all my fight scenes by myself.

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. That's double happiness.

The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.

Everyone realizes when it comes to fight scenes, that's gonna be my wheelhouse.

Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

I found out I really love brutal fight scenes.

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.

I love action. I love stage combat.

I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!

I like to be very physical: Any sort of fight sequence is a dream to me.

Before 'Race 3,' I had not done a role which required me to do action.

[In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

I'm fairly comfortable in fight sequences and stuff like that. I've done a few of them. I'm comfortable with that sort of stuff as long as I'm reasonably fit, and it's fun to do actually. I'm like a kid in a toy shop doing that stuff.

I've never done an action show, really. On 'Jericho,' other people got to ride horses and shoot guns, but I never did.

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.