Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'
Matthew Macfadyen

Life, Work, Yourself

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 that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.
Matthew Macfadyen

Find, Nobody, Arrogant

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
Matthew Macfadyen

Romantic, Lovely, Married

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
Matthew Macfadyen

Money, Why, Hollywood

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
Matthew Macfadyen

Wife, Away, Books

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.
Matthew Macfadyen

Romantic, Character, Actor

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.
Matthew Macfadyen

Whole, Idea, Loved

I love books.
Matthew Macfadyen

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.
Matthew Macfadyen

Love, Able, Making

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 off.
Matthew Macfadyen

Time, Off, Useful

I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.
Matthew Macfadyen

Hate, Play, Couple

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.
Matthew Macfadyen

Long, Before, Play

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
Matthew Macfadyen

Place, Youth, Theatre

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.
Matthew Macfadyen

Hate, Lose, While

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.
Matthew Macfadyen

Hate, Lose, Odd

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.
Matthew Macfadyen

Yourself, Real, Able

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 on with it.
Matthew Macfadyen

Play, Worried, Ghosts

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
Matthew Macfadyen

Understand, British, Snobby

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.
Matthew Macfadyen

Hair, Actor, Nicer

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.
Matthew Macfadyen

Character, Boring, Actor

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.
Matthew Macfadyen

Behind, Exciting, Audience

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.
Matthew Macfadyen

Films, Daunting

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.
Matthew Macfadyen

Before, Play, Started

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 what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.
Matthew Macfadyen

Alone, Long, Enjoy

I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.
Matthew Macfadyen

End, Different, Play

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: October 17, 1974

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