"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.'"

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Source : "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

Matthew Macfadyen

#Thinking Quotes #Careers Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.”
“I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.”
“Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.”
“Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.”

Source : "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages". Book by Harold Bloom, 1994.
“Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.”

Source : Ovid (2015). “The Art Of Love”, p.30, Ovid
“Sometimes there is little regard for people's lives....A hospital tested a new NCI drug ...on children. Their kidneys were lost within days. This was no big deal, because new drugs are routinely given out with literally no safeguards for people...”
“A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.”
“Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.”

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