58 Quotes by Matthew Macfadyen

No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.

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

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

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

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

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

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.

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.

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.