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" 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. "

Rupert Friend

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" I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you. "

" 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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" I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind. "

" I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Hair

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Friends

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. "

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

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Guns

" Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around. "

" Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you. "

" I've never got on with recipes. Free yourself - throw them out! "

" I don't do glamorous things. "

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