Top 44 Rupert Friend Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’m studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It’s very deadly and without rules.

I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

I’ve never got on with recipes. Free yourself – throw them out!

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.

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.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It’s the opposite to that.

I don’t think you can decide how famous or not you become.

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.

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.

Becoming that guy who does one thing is not very interesting. I’m lucky and proud to have been involved in period films and action films.

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

I’ll tell you, there’s no goodies and baddies in the world, there’s just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

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.

‘On the Road‘ completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’m a bit of a technophobe.

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.

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.

The one thing I couldn’t imagine is stopping still.

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.

This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.

‘We’ is a difficult word for me. I don’t know if I feel ‘we’ about anything.

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.

I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.

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.

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

I’ve never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving.

I’m not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can’t argue with the worth of that. But I don’t really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

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 don’t do glamorous things.

Everybody has many people inside of them. I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want.

I don’t think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it’s shot. The studio system doesn’t really exist.

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