Rupert Friend Quotes

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'm a terrible dancer.

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.

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

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 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 don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Sport is not my thing.

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

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

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

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'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.