Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

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

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• 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.

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• I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it’s not me.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I can’t throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

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• 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.

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• You’d never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who’s played it before you.

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

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

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• 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.’

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

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• 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.

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• 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 real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

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• 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.

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• My vanity is I’m terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

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Matthew Macfadyen (30)

Birth:	17th October, 1974
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

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• 1922 - Paul Winchell
• 1966 - Kiefer Sutherland
• 1935 - Phil Donahue
• 1948 - Tom Keith

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• 1935 - Kurt Tucholsky
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