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" Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around. "
Rupert Friend
Walk
Place
Beautiful Place
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" Sport is not my thing. "
Rupert Friend
Thing
Sport
" All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing. "
Rupert Friend
Life
People
Positive
" I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become. "
Rupert Friend
You
How
Become
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Film
Hollywood
Shot
" The more I'm committed to finding a way to genuinely be immersed in someone else's life, the more enjoyment there is in it. I've never been interested in smoke and mirrors and cutting corners. I'd rather just do it for real. "
Rupert Friend
Smoke
Someone
Mirrors
" There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy. "
Rupert Friend
Life
Magic
Joy
" If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then. "
Rupert Friend
Film
Make
Then
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
People
Work
World
" I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me. "
Rupert Friend
Like
Only
Nothing
" I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you. "
Rupert Friend
Love
People
You
" I'm a terrible dancer. "
Rupert Friend
Dancer
Terrible
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Than
Anything
Club
" I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving. "
Rupert Friend
Keep Moving
Like
Moving
" You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees. "
Rupert Friend
Like
Fire
Guns
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Bridges
World
Long
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Think
Weird
Process
" I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it. "
Rupert Friend
Very
Watch
Television
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Way
Got
Never
" I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that. "
Rupert Friend
Big
Big Fan
Fan
" The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still. "
Rupert Friend
Still
The One Thing
Imagine
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Money
Change
Play
" I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash. "
Rupert Friend
You
People
World
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Me
Find
Flag
" We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about their lives having minor problems. "
Rupert Friend
Television
Hair
Go
" It might look like some incredibly complicated map to get from English period films to American action anti-heroes, but it really is just about not having a plan. "
Rupert Friend
Like
American
Plan
" I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids. "
Rupert Friend
Kids
Anything
Bullied
" I never want to overstay my welcome for any character. I would rather people are excited by the ideas a character generates in them rather than feeling bored and wishing he would just go away. "
Rupert Friend
Character
Ideas
People
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Home
Go
Friends
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Truth
Believe
Empathy
" I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore. "
Rupert Friend
Saying
Matter
You