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All Quotes by author - Rufus Sewell

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose. "

" Hollywood is my domestic idyll. "

" I'd like an omelet named after me. "

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

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

" I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life. "

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

" 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. "

" If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am. "

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

" 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. "

" I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that. "

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