Top 32 Quotes by Matthew Macfadyen

I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.

I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.