Quotes By Matthew Macfadyen

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

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.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.