Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Rupert Friend
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it.
I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.
People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment.
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.
I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back.
I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.
I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.
I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.
If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it.
I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.
It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.
I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.
I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.
I find dipping one's toe into all of these people's lives is one of the major exciting points of being an actor. This dilettantism.
I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.
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.
I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.
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.
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.
I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the time.
I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.
'We' is a difficult word for me. I don't know if I feel 'we' about anything.
Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.
'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.
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.
I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.
That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.
If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then.
I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore.
The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.
This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.
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.
Sport is not my thing.
I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays.
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!
I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.
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.
I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!
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.
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