Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Me
Control
Happiness
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
People
Actor
Find
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Life
People
Positive
" I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it. "
Rupert Friend
Name
Me
Hair
" 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
Go
" I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday. "
Rupert Friend
Same Thing
Doing
Yesterday
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Way
Passion
Alive
" My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English. "
Rupert Friend
Connection
I Can
Grandparents
" Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around. "
Rupert Friend
Walk
Place
Beautiful Place
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Home
Go
Friends
" I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me. "
Rupert Friend
Like
Only
Nothing
" Han Solo is more interesting than Superman because he's flawed. Superman's flaw is kryptonite, and that's it. He can make time go backwards, for God's sake, but with Han Solo or Indiana Jones, there's a bit of humanity there. "
Rupert Friend
God
Humanity
Interesting
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Love
Lake
Fish
" I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving. "
Rupert Friend
Keep Moving
Like
Moving
" I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz. "
Rupert Friend
Love
Language
Learning
" Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight! "
Rupert Friend
Walking
Home
Growing Up
" There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision. "
Rupert Friend
Remember
Place
Opinion
" I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British politics is almost nonexistent. "
Rupert Friend
Live
Politics
Connection
" Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you. "
Rupert Friend
Even
Appreciate
Somebody
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
Go
Places
Know
" 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
" It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which will still be here. "
Rupert Friend
Bridges
World
Long
" I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it. "
Rupert Friend
Very
Watch
Television
" 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
Go
" I don't do glamorous things. "
Rupert Friend
Things
Glamorous
" If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. "
Rupert Friend
You
Chance
Going
" 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. "
Rupert Friend
People
Work
World
" I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids. "
Rupert Friend
Kids
Anything
Bullied
" The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still. "
Rupert Friend
Still
The One Thing
Imagine
" 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