Rupert Friend Quotes
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I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!
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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.
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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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I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.
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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.
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Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.
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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.
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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.
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I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.
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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!
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I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore.
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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.
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I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.
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Sport is not my thing.
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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.