Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

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

Matthew Macfadyen

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• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Great
  • New York
  • Down

• I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Together
  • Black
  • Light

• We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Control
  • Purpose
  • Enemy

• But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Dog

• How pleasant to sit on the beach,On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,With ocean galore within reach,And nothing at all to be done!.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Ocean

• As long as I can remember, I have suffered because of the great misery I saw in the world. I never really knew the artless, youthful joy of living, and I believe that many children feel this way, even when outwardly they seem to be wholly happy and without a single care.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • World
  • Great
  • Believe

• I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys.

  

  Alan Dale
  • Bad
  • Famous
  • Nasty

• I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • World
  • Wish

• Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Life
  • Important
  • Blue

• The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Money
  • Business
  • Happy

• At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information, poverty-stricken households will never catch up to households above the poverty line - throwing the African-American community deeper into the stone ages.

  

  Byron Allen
  • Up
  • American
  • Free

• 'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.

  

  Ahmet Davutoglu
  • Important
  • Peace
  • Value

• I prefer tailored clothes. I always have. But I find that whatever I wear, people see it as charged with symbolic meaning.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • People

• Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • May
  • Death
  • Feeling

• We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.

  

  Katherine Ryan

• It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Empowering

• In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Great
  • Words

• If you have to, take a break, go to your corner, get some sleep, but don't ever give up. You will get there.

  

  Colin Cunningham
  • Up
  • Sleep

• I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

  

  Kevin Richardson
  • Teacher
  • Drama

• You are either lucky in this department or you aren't-and you cannot make your own luck.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Luck

• I'll just say that there are times when TV shows, like 'The Honeymooners' or 'I Love Lucy' or something, where they're totally in their stride, and this thing happens, where you can tell they got everything they wanted. And it starts to look a little relaxed. No criticism to the shows whatsoever; these people are geniuses.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Criticism

• I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.

  

  Donald Hall
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

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

  

  Matthew Macfadyen
  • Hamlet