Joseph Fiennes Quotes
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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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
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To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.
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When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.
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Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
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Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a listening.
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A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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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.
