“I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up bef...” — Matthew Macfadyen Quote

“I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.”

“My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.”

“Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested.”

“I'm not big on dark chocolate, but I do have a sweet tooth, so it gets me in trouble. I love warm chocolate chip cookies with ice cream. Then there's this chocolate pie my mom makes for me every year for my birthday. She's been making it since I was younger, and there's nothing like it. It's really so, so good!”

“Having studied at the Sorbonne, I spent my 21st birthday in Paris and celebrated with one of my professors in a cafe outside of Notre Dame.”

“I'm a Virgo. That is me. To a tee. Me and Beyonce. And Amy Winehouse! Same birthday.”