Rupert Friend Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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 think you can decide how famous or not you become.

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.

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

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

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'm a terrible dancer.

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

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 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.

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

Sport is not my thing.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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 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'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.