Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Rupert Friend - Page 2

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.

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

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.

Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you.

I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics.

I find it easier to approach things from a critical angle that otherwise may seem daunting because I'm used to being scared.

Becoming that guy who does one thing is not very interesting. I'm lucky and proud to have been involved in period films and action films.

One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.'

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules.

I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it.

I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British politics is almost nonexistent.

When I come home, all I do is cook. I love cooking, so I go to markets, buy food, cook it for friends. I love doing that.

The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still.

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.

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.

I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice.

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.

I really enjoy the fact that the very boring, normal person that I am isn't kind of interesting to anyone. It's fine by me.

I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving.

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.

I've never got on with recipes. Free yourself - throw them out!

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.

I've been a big blagger all my life.

The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place.

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.

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.

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

I don't do glamorous things.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a bit of a technophobe.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

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.

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

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.