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Top 25 Matthew Macfadyen Quotes (2025 Update)

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.”

1. “No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “Nobody’s really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character’s totally unsympathetic, they’re not real and I’m not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.”

2. “Nobody’s really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character’s totally unsympathetic, they’re not real and I’m not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it’s fine.”

3. “I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it’s fine.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.”

4. “I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “Nobody’s just arrogant. I’ve met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they’re vulnerable – that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they’re pedaling furiously underneath.”

5. “Nobody’s just arrogant. I’ve met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they’re vulnerable – that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they’re pedaling furiously underneath.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “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.’”

6. “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.’”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I’d auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn’t get a place and it was terrifying.”

7. “I’d auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn’t get a place and it was terrifying.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that’s quite prudent, it means you’re stretching different muscles, and you’re scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.”

8. “I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that’s quite prudent, it means you’re stretching different muscles, and you’re scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I can’t throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.”

9. “I can’t throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.”

10. “The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn’t feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you’re doing a play you’re using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.”

11. “I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn’t feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you’re doing a play you’re using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “My vanity is I’m terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.”

12. “My vanity is I’m terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “There’s always a concern as an actor that you’ll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.”

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

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I’ve worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you’re seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy – there’s further to fall. All these little worries.”

14. “I’ve worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you’re seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy – there’s further to fall. All these little worries.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with ‘Spooks.’ No one notices me now.”

15. “It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with ‘Spooks.’ No one notices me now.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don’t understand that.”

16. “Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don’t understand that.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I don’t feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.”

17. “I don’t feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “You’d never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who’s played it before you.”

18. “You’d never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who’s played it before you.”

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Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I’ll be doing next – or even if I’m going to work.”

19. “I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I’ll be doing next – or even if I’m going to work.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “It’s a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.”

20. “It’s a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?”

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

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.”

23. “You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “What’s exciting is there’s a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.”

24. “What’s exciting is there’s a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it’s not me.”

25. “I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it’s not me.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I wouldn’t want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.”

27. “I wouldn’t want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.”

28. “I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfadyen Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

— Matthew Macfadyen

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