The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that youre not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, youll make yourself unhappy, because life doesnt work like that. So much is luck. Its much better to let yourself off, to think, Theres nothing I can do. – Matthew Macfadyen
I dont feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor. – Matthew Macfadyen
As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really dont know whats happening sometimes next week, let alone this year. – 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 its fine. – Matthew Macfadyen
The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, theyre not the enemy. Theyre the people that hire you. Theyre the people that are going to give you a job. – Rush Limbaugh