Rupert Friend
Rupert Friend
Rupert William Anthony Friendis an English actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his roles as Mr. Wickham in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice, Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in the 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Prince Albert in the 2009 film The Young Victoria, and Peter Quinn on the Showtime series Homeland. He also starred in the 2015 film Hitman: Agent 47...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 October 1981
middle-of-nowhere england grew
I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!
thinking
I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.
people use internet
I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.
tired thinking artist
I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. I also never forgot something Johnny Depp said to me, which Marlon Brando said to him, 'You only have so many faces in your pocket.' 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.
people film sock
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.
art intelligent hands
I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.
dream thinking goal
I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.
thinking trying actors
I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.
tired thinking artist
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.
people levels reputation
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.
thinking ideas hollywood
I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.
moving believe empathy
I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.
growing-up home california
Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!
ambition car people
The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!