Rufus Sewell Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I Think The Only Thing I've Got Going For Me As An Actor Specifically Is The Fact That I Can Change.

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.

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.

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'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'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.

Quality Is Subjective. There Are Quality Blockbusters; There Are Quality Versions Of Every Genre And It Doesn't Necessarily Mean Money.

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.

People Talk About Opportunity Knocking, But The Gate Was Always Swinging In The Breeze Before I Got To The Door.