Joseph Fiennes's Quotes
Born: 1970-05-27
Profession: Actor
Nation: British
Biography of Joseph Fiennes
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.
Tags: Books, Everyone, LoveI don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.
Tags: Challenge, Reach, UntilI 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.
Tags: Another, Greatest, TruthI can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.
Tags: Put, Sometimes, TryI love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.
Tags: Life, Love, WorkI think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.
Tags: Stuff, Wait, WorkThe 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.
Tags: Character, Great, WholeThere is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.
Tags: Bit, Might, OppositeBut 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?
Tags: Judge, Mean, StrangeFrom 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.
Tags: Age, Bad, SchoolI fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.
Tags: Compassion, Fall, LoveIt 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.
Tags: Freedom, Life, TimeThere 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.
Tags: Again, Happy, Hope