Rupert Friend Quotes

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

All art is quite useless.

What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'

Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself.

Talent is more important than nice body parts.

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

I've always been a very artsy person, and I always preach self-confidence and knowing your worth.

Music has given me a fantastic lifestyle.

The thing about covers that's relatively important to remember is that it doesn't matter how good an artist you are: if you don't have good ideas, the covers don't stand out.

I was never jealous of my best friend. But I was envious of his talent. I had achieved my ambition of being in a band and playing live and I wanted him to go on and realize his talent as much as he did.

You should have something to say, an idea you want to get out, and if you don't, just get out of the way, 'cause there's so many great musicians and writers that are in the queue.

People should listen to my music because it's good.

There came a time when I had to decide between show business and devoting my full time to medical training. I chose show business.

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.

I did not become an actor to earn money - that I could have done it in my village by becoming a farmer. I wanted to show my craft, which I am so passionate about.

The world of dance is where I felt accepted as a human being.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.