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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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
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My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.
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I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
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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.
