Rupert Graves
Rupert Graves
Rupert Gravesis an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in A Room with a View, Maurice, The Madness of King George and The Forsyte Saga. Since 2010 he has starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series Sherlock...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth30 June 1963
amount prepared work
The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.
good savvy seems shove
You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.
anger projected symbol themselves thirties
It's interesting when you're in your thirties and you're not the same pretty boy that you were when you were 21. I think people's anger at themselves getting older is projected on to you because you become a symbol of that.
moved
It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.
entirely public school
I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.
far grant needed pursue
I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.
school kids insecurity
I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.
pain backsides display
Celebritys a pain in the backside - youre always on display.
children kids thinking
I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, youre a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.
school blue class
I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.
thinking causes done
I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.
careers acting concrete
I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.
thinking feels
I just think the older I get, actually, the better I feel.
boys way rebellious
I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.