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 st…

- Rupert Graves

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

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

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 l…

- Rupert Graves

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

- Rupert Graves

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

- Rupert Graves

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

- Rupert Graves

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

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

- Rupert Graves