As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don’t know what’s happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

Macfadyen contrasts a natural desire for stability with an actor’s often itinerant, uncertain working life. The “security and consistency” he longs for suggests the appeal of routine, long-term plans, and predictable commitments. Yet he also admits to enjoying being “busted around”—jostled by changing roles, locations, and schedules—because that instability can feel energizing and creatively liberating. The line about not knowing what will happen “next week, let alone this year” underscores how precarious and short-horizon planning can be in freelance artistic careers, while also implying a temperament that finds meaning in adaptability rather than fixed outcomes.