Ralph Fiennes Quotes
I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.
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You mean in the state?
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
