Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

I do think I'm a character actor.

I consider myself a character actor.

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me a 'character actor,' I fail to understand what it means.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.

You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.

I was really pretentious in a sense and was like, 'I'm going to drama school to learn the craft.'

I am happy to be part of 'Sajjan Re Phir Jhooth Mat Bolo.' This character is something that I have not done before.

I would loved to be called a character actor.

When I play characters, I like playing people who just comment on stuff, stand around and talk.

I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

When I do the roles, when I'm in the room and auditioning, I'll ask the director if they're cool with me adding stuff, or just improvising while we're doing it. And I would say, like, 90 percent of the time, they say, 'Absolutely.'

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

I don't really view myself as an actor.

Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.