List of Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

What's Exciting Is There's A Curtain That Divides The Audience From This Other World. You Want To See Behind.

It's A Real Skill To Be Able To Publicise 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 Feel The Same Now. I Get Nervous, Then It's Fine.

I'd Auditioned For The National Youth Theatre And I Didn't Get A Place And It Was Terrifying.

Apart From Earning An Awful Lot Of Money, Why Would You Go To Hollywood?

My Vanity Is I'm Terribly Romantic! But Being Married Is Lovely.

I Would Hate Not To Do A Play Every Couple Of Years. I Think It's Not Me.

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.

You'd Never Play Hamlet If You Started Worrying About Who's Played It Before You.

Some British Actors Are Snobby About Telly, And I Don't Understand That.

I Just Loved The Whole Idea Of Being An Actor.

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.

It Must Be Odd, Being Recognizable. I Would Hate To Lose That Anonymity.

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.

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.

There's Always A Concern As An Actor That You'll Be Boring Unless Your Character Is Swinging From A Chandelier.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Actors Have To Remind People That They Can Do Different Things, Not Just The Same Style Of One Role.

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.

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.