Ralph Fiennes Quotes
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.
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I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.
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FBX was my baby that I staked everything on. We shipped it fast, scaled it up, and now the baby talks and can walk to school, but I don't feel I need to babysit it.
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Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.
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It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
