Rupert Friend Quotes

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Rupert Friend

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 1, 1981

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.

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I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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I don't do glamorous things.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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I'm a bit of a technophobe.

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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.

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

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

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