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" I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span. "
Rupert Friend
Attention
Always
Bored
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" 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. "
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" I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it. "
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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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" Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you. "
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" Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely. "
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" Sport is not my thing. "
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" I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there. "
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" 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. "
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" My grandfather, who is English, was a member of a gentleman's club called the Caledonian, which you can only be a member of if you have Scottish lineage. "
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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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Dream
" 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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Go
Friends
" That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that. "
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Comforting
Me
" The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged. "
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" 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. "
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Change
Play
" You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees. "
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" People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment. "
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Say
People
" One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.' "
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Me
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" I don't do glamorous things. "
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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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Way
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" Becoming that guy who does one thing is not very interesting. I'm lucky and proud to have been involved in period films and action films. "
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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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" 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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