English - Actor | October 17, 1974 -
It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.
Matthew Macfadyen
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I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.
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Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.
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People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.
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The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.
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My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
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I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.
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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.
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I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.
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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.
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It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.
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Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
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