A biography for Rupert Friendhasn’t been written yet.
“This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.”
“My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.”
“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.”
“I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.”
“I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.”
“The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.”
“Han Solo is more interesting than Superman because he's flawed. Superman's flaw is kryptonite, and that's it. He can make time go backwards, for God's sake, but with Han Solo or Indiana Jones, there's a bit of humanity there.”
“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.”
“I'm a terrible dancer.”
“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 am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving.”
“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.”
“I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it.”
“I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.”
“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.”
“'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.”
“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.”