Ralph Fiennes Quotes
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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My father was a lawyer.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
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[Elbowing incident] was a joke but what I want to say now is that I'm a bit sad that everyone failed to see that.
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People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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I have led a pretty colorful life.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
