Quotes from Rupert Friend

I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.

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.

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

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 do glamorous things.

I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

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

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.

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.

I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday.

The more I'm committed to finding a way to genuinely be immersed in someone else's life, the more enjoyment there is in it. I've never been interested in smoke and mirrors and cutting corners. I'd rather just do it for real.

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