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.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Know
  • Funny
  • Talking

• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Best
  • Worst
  • Prepare

• 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.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Remember
  • Mom
  • Always

• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• 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.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • Boy
  • Before

• 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.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• 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?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Success

• We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Live
  • Society
  • Science

• I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Believe
  • Care

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Falling

• I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Career
  • Always
  • Said

• I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heaven
  • Scene
  • Tragedy

• So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Study

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Father
  • Parents

• I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

  

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
  • Starting
  • Zero
  • Reporter

• 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.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Research
  • Scene
  • Through