Guardian Q&A: Martin Freeman

Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Martin: Being with someone you love, with a family, and doing the work you want to do.
Q: What is your greatest fear?
Martin: That there is a hell and I’m going there.
Q: Which living person do you most admire?
Martin: My mum.
Q: What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Martin: Self-loathing.
Q: What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Martin: Self-importance.
Q: What has been your most embarrassing moment?
Martin: Sitting next to someone I’ve publicly cussed.
Q: What do you most dislike about your appearance?
Martin: I look like the man in the moon.
Q: What is your most unappealing habit?
Martin: Picking my toenails.
Q: What makes you depressed?
Martin: Not sleeping.
Q: What is your favourite word?
Martin: ‘Please.’
Q: What is your favourite book?
Martin: Animal Farm.
Q: How did you vote in the last election?
Martin: For Socialist Labour.
Q: How will you vote this time?
Martin: Not Labour.
Q: Which living person do you most despise?
Martin: Ricky Gervais.
Q: What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Martin: Being easy-going. The world is full of easy-going, bungee-jumping twats; we don’t need any more.
Q: Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Martin: ‘Mother of Christ’, ‘Jesus, Mary and Joseph’ - and I swear a lot.
Q: How often do you have sex?
Martin: I’m having it now.
Q: What keeps you awake at night?
Martin: Thinking about which shoes I am going to wear the next morning.
Q: How would you like to die?
Martin: Peacefully and old.
Q: How would you like to be remembered?
Martin: As a really nice man and the best actor ever.
Q: What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Martin: Get the fuck on with it.