Rufus Sewell Quotes
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Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.
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Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.
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I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
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Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
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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.
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I've certainly said I don't want to do any more bad guys, then I sit and don't do anything for a while and then think, "Okay, one more."
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Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.
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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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Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
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If I was to say "I'll only do movies," then I'd struggle to find a varied career. My priority is an interesting career, that's why I keep a low rent, I don't go on big holidays, and I keep it very simple.
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I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.
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The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film.
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I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.
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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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Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
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Hollywood is my domestic idyll.
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Id like an omelet named after me.
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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.
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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 was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.
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My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.
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Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.
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My idea of quality is my own idea of quality. What I do and what I want to do next is my business. The next thing I fall in love with might be what you think is rubbish.
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People talk about me in Arcadia and I think I was okay in it but Ive given better performances in other productions that didnt 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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I wasnt 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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It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.
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People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
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