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" I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that. "
Rupert Friend
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" If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. "
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" I'm a bit of a technophobe. "
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" I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords. "
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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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" 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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" I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span. "
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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'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. "
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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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" The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing. "
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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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" 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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" I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. "
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" 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. "
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" Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around. "
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" 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. "
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" The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place. "
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" 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. "
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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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Then
" Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you. "
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" 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. "
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" I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the time. "
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" I'm a terrible dancer. "
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" I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore. "
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" I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it. "
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" I don't do glamorous things. "
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" 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. "
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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'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa. "
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