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" Intrigue is so much more effective. I don't like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with art - people shouldn't read too much before they explore. "

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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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Smoke

Someone

Mirrors

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

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Keep Moving

Moving

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

" 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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Places

Know

" 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. "

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Enjoy

I Am

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about their lives having minor problems. "

Rupert Friend

Television

Hair

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

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

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

Rupert Friend

Fire

Guns

" 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 love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz. "

" 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. "

" The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place. "

" I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash. "

" I've been a big blagger all my life. "

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

" I'm a terrible dancer. "

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Dancer

Terrible

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

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Name

Hair

" I'm a bit of a technophobe. "

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Bit

" Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities. "

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

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