Rufus Sewell Quotes

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've certainly said I don't want to do any more bad guys, then I sit and don't do anything for a while and then think, "Okay, one more."

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.

Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.

I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

My idea of quality is my own idea of quality. What I do and what I want to do next is my business. The next thing I fall in love with might be what you think is rubbish.

I wasnt 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.

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

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

Id like an omelet named after me.

Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

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.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

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

If I was to say "I'll only do movies," then I'd struggle to find a varied career. My priority is an interesting career, that's why I keep a low rent, I don't go on big holidays, and I keep it very simple.

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

People talk about me in Arcadia and I think I was okay in it but Ive given better performances in other productions that didnt have the same impact. But I knew Arcadia was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.

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

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.

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.

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 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.

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

The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film.