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" 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. "

Rufus Sewell

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Work

Attention

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Rufus Sewell

Life

Know

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

" '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. "

" 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. "

Rufus Sewell

Relationship

Important

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Rufus Sewell

I Am

Know

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

" 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 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

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

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

" 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. "

" Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting. "

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

" 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

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

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