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" '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. "

Rufus Sewell

Time

Theatre

Work

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Relationship

Important

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

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Rufus Sewell

Beginning

People

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

" 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. "

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

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Omelet

Named

" 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. "

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Think

Person

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" 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. "

" 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 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

" Hollywood is my domestic idyll. "

Rufus Sewell

Domestic

Hollywood

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