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" If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. "
Rupert Friend
You
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Going
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" 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. "
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" I'm a terrible dancer. "
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" I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash. "
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" 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. "
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" If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then. "
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" One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.' "
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" Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me. "
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" I don't do glamorous things. "
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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