58 Quotes by Matthew Macfadyen

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't think his behavior changes that much, ... It's the way people perceive him that changes.

You got the more sugary one. The Brits hated it.

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.