Rupert Graves Quotes

• There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

  Rupert Graves

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "Rupert bared". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2002.

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• I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.

  Rupert Graves

  Girl, Gay, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

  Rupert Graves

  Humility, Thinking, Doe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

  Rupert Graves

  Interviews, Very Good, Crap

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.

  Rupert Graves

  Trying, Acting, Sometimes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just think the older I get, actually, the better I feel.

  Rupert Graves

  Thinking, Feels

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Rupert Graves

  Thinking, Done, Causes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Rupert Graves

  School, Kids, Insecurity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

  Rupert Graves

  Careers, Acting, Concrete

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Rupert Graves

  Boys, Way, Rebellious

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Rupert Graves

  School, Blue, Class

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Rupert Graves

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Celebritys a pain in the backside - youre always on display.

  Rupert Graves

  Pain, Backsides, Display

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