If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long. Rufus Sewell More Quotes by Rufus Sewell More Quotes From Rufus Sewell My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident. Rufus Sewell happy-accidents favourite photograph Id like an omelet named after me. Rufus Sewell omelets Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. Rufus Sewell layers depth disappointment Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting. Rufus Sewell acting disappointment years The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film. Rufus Sewell nice ocean mean 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. Rufus Sewell lucky battle easy Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise. Rufus Sewell important people way People talk about me in Arcadia and I think I was okay in it but Ive given better performances in other productions that didnt have the same impact. But I knew Arcadia was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it. Rufus Sewell impact people thinking Hollywood is my domestic idyll. Rufus Sewell hollywood Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while. Rufus Sewell lonely gone long People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. Rufus Sewell opportunity doors people 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. Rufus Sewell selfish attitude son Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge. Rufus Sewell champagne fridges bottles 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. Rufus Sewell falling-in-love ideas thinking Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money. Rufus Sewell genre quality mean If I was to say "I'll only do movies," then I'd struggle to find a varied career. My priority is an interesting career, that's why I keep a low rent, I don't go on big holidays, and I keep it very simple. Rufus Sewell holiday simple struggle 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. Rufus Sewell radio roles television 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." Rufus Sewell guy want thinking 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. Rufus Sewell eye play needs 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. Rufus Sewell independent who-i-am people
