Quote by Ralph Fiennes
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accep

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But its a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, youre not playing yourself. – Ralph Fiennes

Other quotes by Ralph Fiennes

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when its packaged as the Night Out, then thats the death of it. – Ralph Fiennes

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Death
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – hed have me put on a jacket to see a film. – Ralph Fiennes

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movies
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Hes really sort of the devil. Hes completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. Its about power with Voldemort. Its an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive. – Ralph Fiennes

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power
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. – George Washington

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Experience

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix. – Vince Cable

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My experience is thats rare – that you have a script that is… what they call film-ready. – Laura Linney

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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. – Chinese Proverb

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