Rupert Friend Quotes

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

On paper, actors are the dumbest group of individuals essentially out there. Most of us have not gone to college. However, we never stop learning. Because of what we do, we're constantly researching, constantly learning.

I learned the process of this kind of acting, how things run, how chaotic it can be, and what kind of different muscles you have to flex.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.

I just take every script as it comes along and take it from there.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.