“I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.” Quote by 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.” WayHas BeensBoysRebelliousDeanArthurCheeky Author: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.” ThinkingWantedGirlInterestingGayShyClosets Author:Rupert Graves
“Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.” ThinkingDoeLevelsHumilityAnxious Author:Rupert Graves
“I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.” Very GoodSentencesInterviewsCrap Author:Rupert Graves
“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.” TryingSometimesMomentsHappensForceActingUrgesReally HappyGroove Author:Rupert Graves
“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.” IfsThinkingChildrenStillsMatterAgeCertainDiesParentNo Matter WhatRealising Author:Rupert Graves
“Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.” TypeDevelopmentMathematicsHistoricalAncientDetailsObscureSpecialists Author:Ivor Grattan-Guinness
“To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom.” KnowsWayMeanOneselfSageKnowing Oneself Author:Pierre Hadot
“Only he who is capable of a genuine encounter with the other is capable of an authentic encounter with himself, and the converse is equally true...From this perspective, every spiritual exercise is a dialogue, insofar as it is an exercise of authentic presence, to oneself and to others.” SpiritualPerspectiveExerciseCapableOneselfGenuineDialogueEncountersConverses Author:Pierre Hadot