Quotes by Rupert Friend - Page 2

I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Events
People
Self
World People Go
World People Things
Endorse
Publicist
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I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Prepared
Process
Way
Twice
Filming
Experienced
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I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Ashamed
Bored
Drawn
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I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Frightening
Symbolism
Cross
Flag
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It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which will still be here.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Bridges
World Long Will
Buildings
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My grandfather, who is English, was a member of a gentleman's club called the Caledonian, which you can only be a member of if you have Scottish lineage.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Gentleman
Grandfather
Lineage
Scottish
Club
Member
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I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Sides
Vice Versa
Shown
Versa
Vice
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We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about their lives having minor problems.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Teeth
Television Shows
Western
Minor
Shiny
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I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Dream
Goal
Human Beings
Thinking
Achieved
Drives
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Wood is weirdly a big passion of mine. I really love it, all the way from trees to a finished table. The fact that it was alive and that each piece is different.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Weirdly
Wood
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It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Imaginative
Oneself
Pen
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I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Admire
Artist
Batteries
Jaded
Thinking
Tired
Artists
Continually
Spot
Quickly
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It might look like some incredibly complicated map to get from English period films to American action anti-heroes, but it really is just about not having a plan.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Complicated
Map
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I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Directors
Thinking
Trying
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My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Scottish
Bump
Connection
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Everybody has many people inside of them. I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Acceptance
Appropriate
Gain
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My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Auditions
Drama
Miserable
Drama School
No Experience
Skill
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I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Work World People
Endorse
Publicist
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I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Art
Doctors
Intelligent
Doctor
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My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Lecturer
Freelance
None
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The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Accent
Feudal
Identify
Literally
Whereby
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Intrigue is so much more effective. I don't like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with art - people shouldn't read too much before they explore.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Intrigue
Art People More
Effective
Explore
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I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Hollywood
Ideas
Thinking
Shot
Exists
Studio System
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I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Hardened
Honest People
Levels
People
Reputation
Scottish
People True Feel
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I never want to overstay my welcome for any character. I would rather people are excited by the ideas a character generates in them rather than feeling bored and wishing he would just go away.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Bored
Character
Excited
Ideas
Welcome
Any
Away
Feeling
Go Away
Would
Rather
Wishing
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I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Believe
Empathy
Moving
Truth Believe I Believe
Discover
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There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Noticed
Qualities
Strongly
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I got the 'I don't want the normal job' bug. At home, we have countless career advisors who would tell us to work in department stores and stay below the bar and not overreach our grasp. I didn't believe any of them.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Department
Department Stores
Work Home Believe
Advisor
Bar
Below
Bug
Countless
Grasp
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I would say that being open to new things is kind of vital in this line of work, if not all lines of work, and being prepared to embrace the challenge of the new thing is something I want in my life until the day it's over.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Embrace
New Things
Life Work Day
Being Prepared
New Thing
Vital
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The more I'm committed to finding a way to genuinely be immersed in someone else's life, the more enjoyment there is in it. I've never been interested in smoke and mirrors and cutting corners. I'd rather just do it for real.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Committed
Corners
Cutting
Enjoyment
Just Do It
Mirrors
Smoke
Smoke And Mirrors
Life Way Real
Genuinely
Immersed
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Han Solo is more interesting than Superman because he's flawed. Superman's flaw is kryptonite, and that's it. He can make time go backwards, for God's sake, but with Han Solo or Indiana Jones, there's a bit of humanity there.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Backwards
Humanity
Indiana
Interesting
Sake
Solo
Flaw
Indiana Jones
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The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Army
Cheerful
Disappointing
Film And Television
Stomach
Marches
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Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Heroic
Likeable
Movie Star
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There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Magic
Personal Life
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Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Home
California
Flight
Granted
Growing Up
Spoiled
Stately
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What theatre people love about theatre - and I totally understand it, I just don't share it - is that they feel they mint something afresh every night. Because I would rather do something until I've done it and then know it's done. New day, next thing!
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Every Night
Mint
New Day
Love Night Day
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Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Acceptance
Appropriate
Levels
Order
Technique
Thinking
Fails
Gain
Revealed
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I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Acceptance
Frustration
Tea
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All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Pieces
Positive Life Time
Dark Place
Tough Time
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Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Not Knowing
Transformation
Character I Am People
Depp
Edward
Foot
Johnny
Jack
Johnny Depp
Personalities
Sparrow
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I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. I also never forgot something Johnny Depp said to me, which Marlon Brando said to him, 'You only have so many faces in your pocket.' I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.
Rupert Friend / Film Actor
Artist
Thinking
Tired
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