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" 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. "
Rufus Sewell
Play
Always
Doing
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" 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. "
Rufus Sewell
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Time
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. "
Rufus Sewell
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Play
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Walk
Love
" 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. "
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Me
" 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. "
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Back
Time
Myself
" 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. "
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Think
Work
Attention
" 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. "
Rufus Sewell
Drama
School
Left
" 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. "
Rufus Sewell
Cheap
Holidays
Out
" 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. "
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Cruise
Wings
Vampire
" As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity. "
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Vanity
Human
Person
" I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions. "
Rufus Sewell
Decisions
Imagination
Much
" For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else. "
Rufus Sewell
Home
Me
Style
" I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while. "
Rufus Sewell
Long
Without
Lonely
" I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise. "
Rufus Sewell
People
You
Always
" I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England. "
Rufus Sewell
Any
England
Get
" 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. "
Rufus Sewell
Changes
Think
Choice
" I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life. "
Rufus Sewell
About
Way
Shame
" 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
Me
I Can
" 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. "
Rufus Sewell
Me
Life
Know
" 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. "
Rufus Sewell
Control
Good
Myself
" Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting. "
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Yes
Acting
Compromise
" Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose. "
Rufus Sewell
Saying
Role
Know
" 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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Son
See
Attitude
" 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. "
Rufus Sewell
Control
Respect
Money
" 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. "
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Reason
Play
I Am
" 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. "
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Me
I Am
Know
" People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. "
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Talk
People
Door
" 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. "
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My Life
Short
Happy
" If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long. "
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