Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

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• No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.
• I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I…
• Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
• I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
• I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.
• I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You…
• It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.
• It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.
• My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
• Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that…
• Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the…
• As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know…
• I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.
• I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with…
• I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch…
• People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get…
• There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.
• You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.
• I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
• I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

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