Quotes from Rupert Friend

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

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.

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

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.

People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment.

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.

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

The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place.

Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.

One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.'

The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

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!

My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.

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

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.