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" 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
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash. "
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" Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around. "
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" I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. "
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" If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. "
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" 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. "
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" I really enjoy the fact that the very boring, normal person that I am isn't kind of interesting to anyone. It's fine by me. "
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Me
" Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you. "
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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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Countryside
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" 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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Write
" I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it. "
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Very
Watch
Television
" 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 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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" The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still. "
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" 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. "
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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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Language
Learning
" People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment. "
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" 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. "
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American
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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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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" I've never got on with recipes. Free yourself - throw them out! "
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Recipes
Never