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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 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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Events

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything. "

" 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. "

" Sport is not my thing. "

Rupert Friend

Thing

Sport

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

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Thing

Comforting

" There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Rupert Friend

Got

Countryside

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

" 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. "

" What theatre people love about theatre - and I totally understand it, I just don't share it - is that they feel they mint something afresh every night. Because I would rather do something until I've done it and then know it's done. New day, next thing! "

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

" I would say that being open to new things is kind of vital in this line of work, if not all lines of work, and being prepared to embrace the challenge of the new thing is something I want in my life until the day it's over. "

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

" I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it. "

Rupert Friend

Name

Hair

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

Rupert Friend

Only

Nothing

" 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

Find

Flag

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Rupert Friend

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Reason

" I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it. "