Ralph Fiennes Quotes

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Strong
  • Dead
  • Older

• My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

  

  Gary McCord
  • School
  • High
  • Magic

• When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Society
  • Sick
  • Liberty

• Conscience is God present in man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Present

• I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Gender

• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Scary

• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

  

  Tacitus
  • Character
  • Best
  • Most

• My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Job
  • Ideas
  • Fair

• It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • You
  • Easy

• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Parts

• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Stars
  • Sorry

• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Real
  • Violence

• I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • First
  • Old

• I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Accomplishment
  • Be Yourself

• The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • Society
  • Spirit

• I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Character
  • Action
  • Problem

• I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Myself

• The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Film
  • Directors
  • Profession

• I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Art
  • Film
  • Theatre

• Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Infrastructure
  • Kenya