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Matthew Macfadyen quotes

English Actor October 17, 1974

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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
Matthew Macfadyen quote: "My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely."
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen quote: "I love books."
I love books. Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen quote: "I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I..."
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
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
The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives. Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen quote: "I just loved the whole idea of being an actor."
I just loved the whole idea of being an actor. Matthew Macfadyen
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
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
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
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
Matthew Macfadyen quote: "I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time...."
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
Matthew Macfadyen quote: "I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a..."
I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor. Matthew Macfadyen
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
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

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