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Rupert Friend
English
Actor
Born:
Oct 1
,
1981
About
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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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.
Rupert Friend
Love
Passion
Finished
Big
Trees
Mine
Way
Alive
Table
Fact
Weirdly
Piece
Wood
Different
Really
Each
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.
Rupert Friend
People
Reputation
Find
True
Feel
Like
Because
Always
Very
Scottish
Get
Being
Straight
Them
Hardened
Level
Honest
Honest People
Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.
Rupert Friend
Beautiful
Walk
Beautiful Place
Edinburgh
Around
Cultural
Place
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!
Rupert Friend
Love
Day
Theatre
People
Every
Would
Mint
Totally
About
Something
Rather
Share
Feel
New
Know
Until
New Day
Because
Understand
Done
Just
Then
Next
Next Thing
Thing
Every Night
Night
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.
Rupert Friend
Me
Bad
Find
Cross
Football
Very
Frightening
Flag
Quite
Just
English
Symbolism
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.
Rupert Friend
Love
Buy
Food
Home
Cooking
Markets
Come
Doing
Go
Friends
Cook
'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.
Rupert Friend
Life
You
Changed
Way
Could
Road
Looked
Your
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.
Rupert Friend
Time
Tired
You
Think
Batteries
Admire
Take
Call
Spot
Continually
Quickly
Jaded
Quite
Artists
Really
Who
I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.
Rupert Friend
Love
Learning
Language
Waltz
Whether
Things
The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place.
Rupert Friend
Mountains
Incredible
Blue
Place
Ridge
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.
Rupert Friend
Character
Welcome
People
Feeling
Go Away
Would
Bored
Rather
Never
He
Excited
Wishing
Ideas
Go
Than
Any
Just
Want
Them
Away
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.
Rupert Friend
Good
Vision
Remember
Everyone
Strongly
Directors
Qualities
Opinion
Still
Very
Listen
Place
Noticed
Two
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.
Rupert Friend
Relationship
Somebody
Become
Think
Else
Weird
Obviously
Trying
Process
Thing
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.
Rupert Friend
Hope
You
Big
Think
Dream
Something
Drives
Most
Goal
Human
Achieved
Want
Human Beings
Might
Us
Beings
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.
Rupert Friend
You
Change
People
Somebody
Voice
Identify
Accent
Sort
Feudal
Literally
Whereby
England
Street
I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.
Rupert Friend
You
People
World
Sometimes
Tell
Clash
Just
Intentions
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!
Rupert Friend
Home
You
Drive
Stately
Way
Could
Take
Spoiled
California
Sort
Within
Around
Got
Up
Very
Walking
Granted
Hard
Flight
England
Growing
Growing Up
I'm a terrible dancer.
Rupert Friend
Dancer
Terrible
I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore.
Rupert Friend
Saying
You
Wonderful
Matter
Think
Bad
Something
Rather
Because
Anymore
Then
I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.
Rupert Friend
Me
Nothing
Only
Part
Taking
Like
Interested
Really
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.
Rupert Friend
Musicians
Business
Father
Freelance
Before
Own
Jobs
None
Real
His
Lecturer
Friends
Artists
Us
Started
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.
Rupert Friend
People
World
Events
Whatever
Go
Endorse
Meant
Publicist
Things
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.
Rupert Friend
Work
Buy
Great
People
Sit
Whatever
Films
About
Rather
Talk
Than
Where
Socks
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.
Rupert Friend
Complicated
Action
Films
Incredibly
Some
About
Having
Like
Look
Period
Get
American
Just
Might
Plan
Really
English
Map
People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment.
Rupert Friend
People
Face
Say
Compliment
Find
People Say
Scary
Mixed
You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.
Rupert Friend
You
Fire
Degrees
Guns
Blanks
Hot
Like
Real
Brass
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