Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

I love doing action and stuff; the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's less opportunities for me.

I would love to do '24' until I was 60, but I don't think anybody would accept it.

You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.

I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.

But, having said that, believe me, as you get older, the parts dry up. They get less and less.

There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling, and there isn't really any job for me. It's being marginalized - that's the sad part.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough to be in the movies. It's a very political world. In all modesty, I can say that I'm a much better actor, but that doesn't matter.

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

I'd love to play Spiderman, but I'm definitely too old for that role now.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.

My young face keeps me in the running for youthful roles. If my face is going to look 22 then so should my body.

Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.

I'm 51 now, so there are less roles available.

I was desperate to do more TV and film. Because I considered myself to be a theater creature. A theater animal. I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life. Because it's something I can really do. I thought I was pretty good at it, and it's kind of stupid, but I was concerned that people would go, "Oh yeah, he's very good onstage, I'm not sure he can do television."

As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There were handsome leading men and character actors for smaller supporting roles. But I was told to hang in there, and it was good advice. We're all character actors now. Even a handsome man is a character actor at my age.

When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised.

I feel strongly for the younger actresses when a lot of their career is based on how they look. That must be hard when your looks begin to go and you haven't built up the wealth of character parts to get into something else.

I read YA novels constantly, so I really want to be in a young adult rom-com, but I worry that I'm aging into the parent role, which is a little scary.