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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 was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there. "

Rupert Friend

Individual

Quality

Solitary

" 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. "

" I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row. "

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

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

" 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! "

" 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

" The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice. "

" 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. "

" I find dipping one's toe into all of these people's lives is one of the major exciting points of being an actor. This dilettantism. "

" I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids. "

" You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees. "

Rupert Friend

Fire

Guns

" 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. "

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

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

" One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control. "

Rupert Friend

Control

Happiness

" I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving. "

Rupert Friend

Keep Moving

Moving

" If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. "

" I'm a bit of a technophobe. "

Rupert Friend

Bit

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

" 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 don't do glamorous things. "

Rupert Friend

Things

Glamorous

" I got the 'I don't want the normal job' bug. At home, we have countless career advisors who would tell us to work in department stores and stay below the bar and not overreach our grasp. I didn't believe any of them. "

" I really enjoy the fact that the very boring, normal person that I am isn't kind of interesting to anyone. It's fine by me. "

Rupert Friend

Enjoy

I Am

" 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. "

" My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs. "