Rufus Sewell Quotes

Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

I would love to have the biggest band that I can have. I'd love to put on a massive show and just give people their money's worth, then just come away from it thinking, 'That was a good show', because it's kind of disappointing sometimes when you go and see someone and you can see they're not that bothered.

Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

It's not about the money; it's about the content.

You build a fan base over time, and they will accept you as long as it's good. Nothing matters as long as something's good. If it's bad, nobody will see it.

If you want to make money, that's great, but if you make great music, you're going to make money anyway. Keep your eyes on making a great product. You don't even have to promote it.

If the packaging is good - the actors, director and producer - then it will work, even if the product is not good.

Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their money back for

Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

Money is a most important thing in the world.

No, 'cause, I mean, the expectation for me is I'm gonna try my best to win the tournament. But it's the people that sort of are in the media, are in the press, and the people that read it are the ones that, you know, see the expectation getting bigger or greater or, you know, how my performances have been going, whatnot.

I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't ambitious in the "I've got to get a pilot!" way. I never went out to L.A. for pilot season.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.