Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

• It’s a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

  Matthew Macfadyen

• 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

• 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

• I’d auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn’t get a place and it was terrifying.

  Matthew Macfadyen

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I don’t feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

  Matthew Macfadyen

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

  Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen (30)

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

Related Authors

• Patrice Leconte
• Brian Littrell
• Jim Broadbent
• Jeremy Piven
• Bill Stern
• Drew Roy
• Roger Daltrey
• James Cromwell
• D. L. Hughley
• Sting

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 22nd December

Births

• 1962 - Ralph Fiennes
• 1962 - Mark Ruffalo
• 1908 - Max Bill
• 1952 - Robert McChesney
• 1943 - Paul Wolfowitz

Deaths

• 1987 - Sir Henry Thomas Cotton
• 1906 - Robert Rainy
• 2001 - Lance Loud
• 1943 - Beatrix Potter
• 1899 - Dwight L. Moody