116 Quotes by Rupert Friend

I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the time.

'We' is a difficult word for me. I don't know if I feel 'we' about anything.

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.

It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.

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 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.

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