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

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

Wife, Away, Books

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

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

Romantic, Character, Actor

I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.
Matthew Macfadyen

Love, May, Play

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 I do have a good eye. It's quite liberating, being in a position to read a script and say, 'No.' It's really the only power you have, as an actor.
Matthew Macfadyen

Good, Power, Read

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 the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.
Matthew Macfadyen

Love, Work, Long

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 try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.
Matthew Macfadyen

Yourself, Different, Play

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 feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.
Matthew Macfadyen

Birthday, Before, Same

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

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 feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.
Matthew Macfadyen

Stress, Fall, Seen

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

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.
Matthew Macfadyen

Good, Character, Bad

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: October 17, 1974

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