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" 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. "

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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. "

Rupert Friend

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Socks

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

" I don't do glamorous things. "

Rupert Friend

Things

Glamorous

" I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics. "

" I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the time. "

Rupert Friend

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Reason

" The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place. "

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

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

" I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" What theatre people love about theatre - and I totally understand it, I just don't share it - is that they feel they mint something afresh every night. Because I would rather do something until I've done it and then know it's done. New day, next thing! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a bit of a technophobe. "

Rupert Friend

Bit

" 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. "

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

Rupert Friend

Fire

Guns

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

" 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

" 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. "

Rupert Friend

American

Plan

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

" 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 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. "

Rupert Friend

World

Events

" 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. "

Rupert Friend

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