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Joseph Fiennes Quotes - Page 1
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Give me a sword fight any day.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Give Me
Fight Me Day
Sword
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I love travelling. I love cultures.
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Film Actor
Cultures
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The idea that I had a bohemian childhood is laughable.
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Film Actor
Bohemian
Laughable
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I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
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Film Actor
Blood
Modern
Writing
Unknown
Writers
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Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.
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Film Actor
Crucial
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You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Fun
Guides
Joy
Guide
Have Fun
Regardless
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What I love about my work is that I'm forced to look through my character's eyes.
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Film Actor
Forced
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I want my daughters to live in a world where there is equality and parity of pay.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Parity
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I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Challenges
Knows
Looks
Limitations
Reach
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There is more meat and mileage in complex characters, like 'Running with Scissors.'
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Film Actor
Meat
Mileage
Scissors
Complex
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I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Behavior
Fascinated
Human Behavior
Love Life
Loving Life
Life Love Work
Feeds
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I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Early Work
Stuff
Thinking
Waiting
Wait
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I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.
Joseph Fiennes
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Classical
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There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Bounce
Might
Opposites
Way
Opposite
Me Way Back
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Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Exhilarating
Mentally
Spiritually
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When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!
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Roles
Tights
Voice
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Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Quality
Thinking
Understanding
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I like language, and in film, language is diluted by the visuals and the music. Theatre is what I was trained for.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Visuals
Diluted
Trained
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I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Process
Sometimes
Trying
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I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Newspapers
Profiles
Processes
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I'm a huge admirer of Pope Francis and everything he stands for. I think he's an incredibly connected spiritual and authentic being.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Pope
Spiritual
Thinking
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I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Might
Resistance
Thinking
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I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.
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Dream
Love
Heart
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The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Access
Character
Experts
Skills
Great Character World
Great Thing
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Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Christ
Ends
Film
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I was baptised a Catholic and, although I'm not a churchgoer now, I do have a strong sense of the integrity of doing what you believe to be true.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Catholic
Be True
Strong Sense
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If you want to make idols accessible - which I think Shakespeare should be - then you have to bring a human touch, make it self-effacing and warm.
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Film Actor
Idols
Warm
Shakespeare
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When you wake up, and you see that America has pulled out of the climate deal in Paris, that sends huge messages about putting coal before the planet.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Coal
Messages
Pulled
Sends
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Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's a good thing to learn early on.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Glamour
Profession
Work Good Hard Work
Backstage
Good Thing
Realise
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I meet people in my business who have this extraordinary ability to understand human nature in their work, but in real life, they don't seem to have the first clue.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Clue
Human Nature
Life Nature Work
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What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Compelling
Following
People Doing Find
Classical
Text
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But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in The Dukes of Hazzard? I mean, hello?
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Film Actor
Hollywood Films
Judging
Mean
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But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in 'The Dukes of Hazzard?' I mean, hello?
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Film Actor
Hello
Strange
Suggesting
Judge
Strange Thing
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I think everyone around me played a part in raising me; there isn't one individual I could pick out - it was more a case of it taking the whole village to raise the child.
Joseph Fiennes
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Village
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Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.
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Film Actor
Kings
Views
Youth
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It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.
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Film
Thinking
Years
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From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.
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Film Actor
Age
People
School
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From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Gang
Hideous
Pupils
Rough
Terror
Twelve
Beat
Member
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I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Ownership
Love Character Find
Element
Identify
Inhabit
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I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Book
Canvas
Ink
Library
Paper
Smell
Vendetta
Destroy
Net
Organic
Pen
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I have two sisters that are directors: one's in documentary, one's in film. My mother was a writer and a painter, so I've been surrounded since childhood by dynamic women and female voices in arts.
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Film Actor
Painter
Sisters
Documentary
Dynamic
Voices
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I think 'The Handmaid's Tale' always had that power since it was written over 30 years ago. This extraordinary piece of feminist literature had its fan base then, but TV has given it an enormous reach.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Enormous
Fan Base
Handmaid
Tale
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I guess there's nothing I don't like about Merlin, in this presentation. I love everything, even the things I find despicable and abhorrent in Merlin. They're actually a joy to ride on the tailcoats of.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Abhorrent
Joy
Presentation
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There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Again And Again
Failing
Flow
Fail
Hoping
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I may seem to have worn a lot of tights in films, but actually, those are just the films that have been most visible or worked best. I have worn jeans a lot, too, but those ones haven't tended to work so well.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Jeans
Tights
Visible
Worn
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I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Fantasy
Finding The One
Form
Infuriating
Theory
Thinking
Truth Is
Wall
Academics
Greatest
Cancel
Drives
Expert
Finding
Shakespeare
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At home, our parents never compared us. I mean, there were seven of us kids. Obviously, I always looked up to my brother and his work, and I have nothing but utter respect. But I never felt we were in competition.
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Utter
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I think all experience is, in some way, shape or form, filtered down to help you, in your present moment. With Shakespeare, you're trying to act with a fairly archaic language, although in certain aspects, it's deeply modern.
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Shapes
Thinking
Trying
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I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.
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Age
Character
Icons
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It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result.
Joseph Fiennes
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Film Actor
Long
Thinking
Years
Life Time Freedom
Meant
Enhanced
Terribly
Life Freedom Time
Incredibly
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