Rupert Graves Quotes

At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

Rap always has that undertone of rebellion and I just wanted to explore it. I felt there was a rebel within me who was against everything - the education system and teachers, and even my parents.

I was the funny-looking one who wore a trench coat and played hacky sack with the other greasy kids.

I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.

I was such a punk.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

I've never been a bad boy.

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.