Rufus Sewell Quotes

Id like an omelet named after me.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

I wasnt 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.

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.

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

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.

Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.

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 not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.

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

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.

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

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.

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

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.