Quotes from Rufus Sewell

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.

I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.

Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.

'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous.

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

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.

For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.

Well, thing is, after they cancelled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that case, it was not my choice. After I've done something that I'm really proud of and I think changes the way I'm perceived, the immediate reaction is: nothing.

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.

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 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.

Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.

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.

The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.

I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.

I'd like an omelet named after me.

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.