English - Actor | October 29, 1967 -
I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
Rufus Sewell
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As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
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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.
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It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.
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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.
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I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.
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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.
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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.
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I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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