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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I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.
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I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
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My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
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When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.
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I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because my dad was a businessman. It was a family company and I assumed that I would take it on from him.
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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.
