Rupert Friend

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.

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

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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 the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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Quotes by Rupert Friend