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Matthew Macfadyen

David Matthew Macfadyen (born 17 October 1974) is an English actor. He played MI5 Intelligence Officer Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series Spooks, Mr. Darcy in the 2005 film of Pride & Prejudice and Daniel in the Frank Oz comedy Death at a Funeral. He also portrayed John Birt in the political drama Frost/Nixon, and Detective Inspector Edmund Reid in the BBC series Ripper Street. In 2015 he starred in the Sky Living series The Enfield Haunting as Guy Lyon Playfair.

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Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

Actors, British, Snobby, Telly, Understand

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do. '

Careers, Knowing, Nothing, People, Security, Thinking

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

Hate, Lose, Loses, Odd, Recognizable

No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.

Aging, Direction, Growing Up, Guide, Guides, Right

I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.

Drained, Five, Play, Silly, Years

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

Awful, Earning, Hollywood, Money

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

Films, Lucky, Making, Play, Plays, Three

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

Actor, Actors, Character, Feels, Guess, Lead

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

Feels, People, Think, Thinking, Time

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

Actors, Idea, Ideas, Loved, Whole

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

Long, Play, Sluggish, Stolid, Telly, Want

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

Ghosts, Like, People, Play, Thinking

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

Able, Publicise, Real, Skill, Skills

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

Film, Films, Know, Know How, Think, Thinking

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks. ' No one notices me now.

Hate, Lose, Notice Me, Odd, Recognisable, Spooks

I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.

Couple, Hate, Think, Thinking, Years

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

Actors, Boring, Chandelier, Character, Unless

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

Away, Book, Books, My Wife, Throw, Wife

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

Hamlet, Ifs, Play, Played, Worry, Worrying

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

National, Theatre, Youth, Youth Theatre

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