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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. "

Rufus Sewell

Vanity

Human

Person

" 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. "

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

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

Rufus Sewell

Think

I Can

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Rufus Sewell

Jobs

Good

" 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 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. "

Rufus Sewell

Beginning

People

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

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

" 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. "

Rufus Sewell

Better

Impact

" 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. "

" Hollywood is my domestic idyll. "

Rufus Sewell

Domestic

Hollywood

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

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

Rufus Sewell

Home

Style

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

Rufus Sewell

Think

Person

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

" People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Rufus Sewell

Omelet

Named

" 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. "

" 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. "