Rupert Graves Quotes

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

You get further if you let your mind run free and do whatever you fancy at that particular time. I don't agree with planning far ahead and saying, 'this week I'm doing this, that week I'm doing that.'

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

I'm a guy who likes to make it up as he goes along.

I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.