Quotes from Rufus Sewell

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

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.

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

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

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

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.

It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.

I wasn't 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.

People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart.

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

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

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

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.

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.

I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release.