Rupert Friend Quotes

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Rupert Friend

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 1, 1981

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.

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This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.

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I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back.

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If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it.

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I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

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That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

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I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday.

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I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.

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I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.

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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.

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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.

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If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then.

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The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.

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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.

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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.

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I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.

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I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the time.

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'We' is a difficult word for me. I don't know if I feel 'we' about anything.

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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.

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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.

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