Joseph Fiennes Quotes
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Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's a good thing to learn early on.
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There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.
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What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.
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I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
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I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
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I think everyone around me played a part in raising me; there isn't one individual I could pick out - it was more a case of it taking the whole village to raise the child.
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I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.
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What I love about my work is that I'm forced to look through my character's eyes.
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There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.
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I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.