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" I've never got on with recipes. Free yourself - throw them out! "
Rupert Friend
Free
Recipes
Never
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" I only do the press for the work. 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 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. "
Rupert Friend
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Goal
Dream
" 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. "
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" I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could! "
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Up
" The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged. "
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" I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart. "
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" Sport is not my thing. "
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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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Always
Sides
Playing
" I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids. "
Rupert Friend
Kids
Anything
Bullied
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Life
Magic
Joy
" I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span. "
Rupert Friend
Attention
Always
Bored
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Book
Art
Too Much
" The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place. "
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Incredible
Place
Mountains
" 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. "
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Actor
Find
" 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
Me
Hair
" If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then. "
Rupert Friend
Film
Make
Then
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
New Things
Work
Challenge
" That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that. "
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Comforting
Me
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Than
Anything
Club
" 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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Way
Got
Never
" I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules. "
Rupert Friend
Studying
Without
Defense
" I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you. "
Rupert Friend
Love
People
You
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Money
Change
Play
" 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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Admire
Take
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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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Me
Cinema
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
School
Training
Drama
" 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. "
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Love
Lake
Fish
" I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it. "
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Watch
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" 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. "
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Ideas
People
" 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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Life
People
Positive