Ralph Fiennes Quotes
Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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If I was gay, there would be no closet, you would never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was 12. Because I know with all certainty in my mind, there is nothing wrong with being gay, and you know it.
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Is it possible to love someone too much? You bet.
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
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Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
