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Rufus Sewell
English
Actor
Born:
Oct 29
,
1967
Long
Me
Myself
People
Think
Work
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Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.
Rufus Sewell
Saying
Good
Ugly
Someone
Given
Between
Know
Role
Handsome
Which
Choice
Choose
I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
Rufus Sewell
You
People
Treat
Important
Otherwise
Way
Strongly
More
Always
Very
Than
Anything
Professionally
Believed
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.
Rufus Sewell
Fear
School
Drama
Drama School
Stuck
Counter
Pigeon
Comic
Got
Opposite
Left
Get
Did
Much
Acting
I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.
Rufus Sewell
Work
Best
Great
Country
Think
Best Work
Great Part
Had
Part
Attention
Known
Lot
Roles
Anywhere
Even
Near
Play
Necessarily
I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.
Rufus Sewell
Life
Me
Money
Rest
My Life
Few
Earned
Weeks
Know
Going
Next
Last
Need
I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.
Rufus Sewell
Universe
Determined
Feet
Know
Ground
Keep
Why
I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.
Rufus Sewell
Life
Way
About
Shame
Any
Professional
Professional Life
Hollywood is my domestic idyll.
Rufus Sewell
Domestic
Hollywood
It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.
Rufus Sewell
Needs
Me
Relationship
Important
Someone
Who
I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.
Rufus Sewell
Long
Think
Bit
Tried
Having
Could
Put
Off
Frightened
Grownup
I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.
Rufus Sewell
Too
Idea
Liked
Felt
Always
Doing
Were
West
Offered
Which
Regularly
Play
Things
People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.
Rufus Sewell
Me
People
Better
Think
Other
Okay
Impact
About
Given
Part
Knew
Performance
Talk
Same
Going
Wanted
Productions
Event
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.
Rufus Sewell
Style
Out
Dine
Angeles
Take
Cheap
Maintain
Longer
Rent
Los
Los Angeles
Flat
Holidays
Little
Flights
I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release.
Rufus Sewell
Morning
Me
Before
Think
Gave
Release
Something
Could
Excited
Self-Conscious
Motivated
Undisciplined
Up
Very
Person
Get
Quite
Experienced
Really
Acting
Actually
I wasn't 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.
Rufus Sewell
Reading
Sit
Though
Out
Some
Shakespeare
Through
Schoolboy
Forced
Course
Got
Model
Depended
Really
Who
I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.
Rufus Sewell
Me
Change
Think
Only
Fact
Got
Going
The Only Thing
Actor
Specifically
Thing
My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media.
Rufus Sewell
Success
About
Terms
Parts
Always
Been
Banging
Different
Wanted
Different Parts
Suddenly
Media
Level
Started
Playing
Career
I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.
Rufus Sewell
Myself
Me
People
Better
Become
Beginning
Sense
Corner
Way
Relaxed
Bit
Hopefully
Find
Physical
Seeing
More
Boxed
Gotten
Up
Very
Frustrated
Actor
Things
I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
Rufus Sewell
Lonely
Long
Gone
Bit
Someone
Through
Long Periods
Periods
Without
Got
Being
While
For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.
Rufus Sewell
Home
Me
Comedy
Style
Else
Kind
More
Were
Than
Any
Anything
Anything Else
I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart.
Rufus Sewell
Love
Interview
Vampire
Shakespeare
Wings
Lead
He
Cruise
Thurman
Fell
Until
Roberts
Got
Julia
Julia Roberts
Cancelled
Decided
Apart
Interested
Dove
Tom
Tom Cruise
For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.
Rufus Sewell
Time
Great
Me
Long
Long Time
Difficult
Hustle
Had
Obviously
Been
Role
Get
Then
Film
I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.
Rufus Sewell
Character
You
Yourself
Will
Down
Think
Other
Come
Parts
Fore
Certain
Appeals
Play
Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.
Rufus Sewell
Say
Hoping
Similar
Lazy
Journalists
Stuff
Read
Question
Very
Get
Same
Tiresome
Quote
Again
Ask
Then
Thing
It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.
Rufus Sewell
Me
Women
Will
Nice
Think
Only
Disappoint
Know
Am
Fancy
Prefer
Them
Who
I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.
Rufus Sewell
Able
Like
Know
Expect
Want
Anything
Reasonable
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