116 Quotes by Rupert Friend

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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