Top 30 Rufus Sewell Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

I don’t have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.

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.

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

‘The Taming Of The Shrew’ is probably the first time I’ve worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it’s not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London – it felt really glamorous.

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 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 if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

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.

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 don’t know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

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.

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

For a long time, I’ve had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it’s been difficult for me to get a look-in.

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.

The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I’m offered. If I didn’t, I’d only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.

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.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that’s part of being a human being if you’re honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don’t let control you.

I’d like an omelet named after me.

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

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’m very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public’s memory is very short, luckily.