Rufus Sewell Quotes

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

I'd like an omelet named after me.

I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release.

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media.

I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart.

A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.

I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.

People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.

Well, thing is, after they cancelled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that case, it was not my choice. After I've done something that I'm really proud of and I think changes the way I'm perceived, the immediate reaction is: nothing.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.

I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Odd people do good things. There are good and bad in all people and that's why it's worth appealing to the good in people. Some prickly characters do some great things and some quite affable and nice characters do bad things. We're a mixed bunch, you know, and this is about human beings doing something great.

I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.