58 Quotes by Matthew Macfadyen

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

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

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

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don’t understand that.

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.

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

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

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

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.