Top 18 Quotes by Rupert Graves

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.

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.