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Rupert Friend Quotes

I don’t really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

– Rupert Friend

I’m only really interested in taking a part if it’s nothing like me.

– Rupert Friend

I think saying you’re bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn’t matter anymore.

– Rupert Friend

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

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

I’m a terrible dancer.

– Rupert Friend

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

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

‘On the Road’ completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

– Rupert Friend

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

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

I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.

– Rupert Friend

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

Sport is not my thing.

– Rupert Friend

I’ll tell you, there’s no goodies and baddies in the world, there’s just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

– Rupert Friend

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

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

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

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

Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.

– Rupert Friend

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

– Rupert Friend

I think you can decide how much of yourself you’re willing to make public.

– Rupert Friend

I don’t think you can decide how famous or not you become.

– Rupert Friend

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

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

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

– Rupert Friend