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" The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place. "
Rupert Friend
Incredible
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" I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. "
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" 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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" I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span. "
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" 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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" One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.' "
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" I don't do glamorous things. "
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" 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. "
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" You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees. "
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" I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice. "
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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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" I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that. "
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" 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. "
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" My grandfather, who is English, was a member of a gentleman's club called the Caledonian, which you can only be a member of if you have Scottish lineage. "
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Gentleman
Only
" I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public. "
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Much
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" 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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" 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. "
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Home
Career
" People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment. "
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Say
People
" Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around. "
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Place
Beautiful Place
" 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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Go
" 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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Great
Saying
" I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind. "
Rupert Friend
I Believe
Mind
Believe
" 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. "
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God
Humanity
Interesting
" Sport is not my thing. "
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Thing
Sport
" 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 am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it. "
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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. "
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Socks
" This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different. "
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" 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. "
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" I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz. "
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