When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned ...
RALPH FIENNES We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
RALPH FIENNES The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
RALPH FIENNES I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people ...
RALPH FIENNES I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
RALPH FIENNES I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
RALPH FIENNES So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and w...
RALPH FIENNES Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do a...
RALPH FIENNES I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about som...
RALPH FIENNES As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but t...
RALPH FIENNES You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
RALPH FIENNES I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as ...
RALPH FIENNES Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession ...
RALPH FIENNES Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
RALPH FIENNES I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
RALPH FIENNES I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic...
RALPH FIENNES There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it ve...
RALPH FIENNES There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and sud...
RALPH FIENNES God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlighten...
RALPH FIENNES Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
RALPH FIENNES I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict...
RALPH FIENNES You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
RALPH FIENNES Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They...
RALPH FIENNES There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be fr...
RALPH FIENNES One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
RALPH FIENNES He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You ...
RALPH FIENNES Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me...
RALPH FIENNES I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
RALPH FIENNES I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theater, there's the acting part of acting -- and I'...
RALPH FIENNES Yes, it's depressing when there's a lack of clean water and sanitation, ... But here are people livi...
RALPH FIENNES The Constant Gardener
RALPH FIENNES [Is a fiction film particularly well equipped to do the kind of work we usually associate with inves...
RALPH FIENNES You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
RALPH FIENNES We were in real places, with real people. That is Fernando's gift, ... The Kenyan background is like...
RALPH FIENNES Any idealistic activity outside of my work is something confined to a few field trips with UNICEF in...
RALPH FIENNES We were in real places, with real people. That is Fernando's gift.
RALPH FIENNES On these things we don't really know until it is asked of us.
RALPH FIENNES But that's why we have marketing and why I'm talking to people like you,
RALPH FIENNES Justin's journey traces not only what Tessa was investigating; he's also playing detective about the...
RALPH FIENNES Justin sees something in Tessa. She's getting at him,
RALPH FIENNES He said Quayle's the sort who'd be good at rowing or playing rugby, ... I know rugby players. They r...
RALPH FIENNES Strange Days
RALPH FIENNES Daniel had to put up with a lot from me. Here's a boy who's tied up with a man pushing his finger in...
RALPH FIENNES H. Potter & Goblet of Fire
RALPH FIENNES Harry Potter & the Goblet...
RALPH FIENNES I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
RALPH FIENNES I don't think he's that complicated to begin with,
RALPH FIENNES What I liked about the story is that it throws up all these questions. The movie teases the audience...
RALPH FIENNES Justin was a chance to play what I don't quite succeed at. There's a bit of Justin that I'm not, but...
RALPH FIENNES Fernando has a particular shooting style, ... which you might call guerrilla or documentary. He want...
RALPH FIENNES Justin isn't going to respond angrily ... he's going to carefully say, 'What was she doing?
RALPH FIENNES [Is a fiction film particularly well equipped to do the kind of work we usually associate with inves...
RALPH FIENNES I'm interested in the spirits of people,
RALPH FIENNES I don't think Justin changes,
RALPH FIENNES Justin investigates his wife's death and what she was investigating and there's -- people are after ...
RALPH FIENNES The patience, the tenacity of the gardener for me, it's the spirit of Tessa.
RALPH FIENNES It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
RALPH FIENNES You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
RALPH FIENNES There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
RALPH FIENNES In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a ...
RALPH FIENNES There are two equal parts to this movie,
RALPH FIENNES It shows the kind of man he is. To allow any emotion would be unseemly for him,
RALPH FIENNES But experience has shown us time and time again, country after country, that it will be there.
RALPH FIENNES While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe ...
RANULPH FIENNES I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.
JOSEPH FIENNES As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally a...
RANULPH FIENNES I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel hi...
JOSEPH FIENNES I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.
JOSEPH FIENNES With fear, you must prevent not cure. Fear must nor be allowed to take hold in the first place. If y...
RANULPH FIENNES Shakespeare,
JOSEPH FIENNES Will I spend my life in a wheelchair? Tottering around my lounge, instead of running up mountain pas...
RANULPH FIENNES After my heart attack I thought, is this it?
RANULPH FIENNES I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
RANULPH FIENNES There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
RANULPH FIENNES It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dan...
RANULPH FIENNES There is of course, never any point in crying over spilt milk - the key is to learn from failures an...
RANULPH FIENNES No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you...
RANULPH FIENNES From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I w...
JOSEPH FIENNES [How does that affect his relationships?] It puts a stress on relationships, not just with partners ...
JOSEPH FIENNES When I was offered the part in ShakespeareIn Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!
JOSEPH FIENNES I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about...
JOSEPH FIENNES I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
JOSEPH FIENNES I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.
JOSEPH FIENNES Give me a sword fight any day.
JOSEPH FIENNES I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing...
JOSEPH FIENNES I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic t...
JOSEPH FIENNES [How does that affect his relationships?] It puts a stress on relationships, not just with partners ...
JOSEPH FIENNES When I was offered the part in Shakespeare
In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights r...
JOSEPH FIENNES In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have...
RALPH GIBSON Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your f...
RALPH MARSTON I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
RALPH WAITE Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut o...
RALPH WAITE 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off...
RALPH WAITE The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're on...
RALPH WAITE I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a l...
RALPH WAITE I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
RALPH WAITE You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
RALPH WAITE There is no truly global justice.
RALPH STEADMAN Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes...
RALPH STEADMAN Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
RALPH STEADMAN I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
RALPH STEADMAN We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
RALPH STEADMAN Isolationism is over.
RALPH STEADMAN I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what bei...
RALPH STEADMAN Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
RALPH STEADMAN I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
RALPH STEADMAN Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
RALPH STEADMAN I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affe...
RALPH STEADMAN The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
RALPH STEADMAN Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and r...
RALPH STEADMAN You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force...
RALPH STEADMAN God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
RALPH STEADMAN It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
RALPH STEADMAN You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even ...
RALPH STEADMAN Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference ...
RALPH STEADMAN I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
RALPH STEADMAN Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out o...
RALPH STEADMAN I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
RALPH STEADMAN The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost...
RALPH STANLEY I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley...
RALPH STANLEY I believe in my music.
RALPH STANLEY I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can&...
RALPH STANLEY I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to...
RALPH STANLEY I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
RALPH STANLEY We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into tea...
RALPH REGULA In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes th...
RALPH REGULA My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH a...
RALPH REGULA People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By be...
RALPH REGULA Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal se...
RALPH RANSOM Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within th...
RALPH PETERS I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've ser...
RALPH PETERS The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
RALPH PETERS Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those ar...
RALPH PETERS Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
RALPH PETERS Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.
RALPH PETERS Social peace requires reciprocity.
RALPH PETERS When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'...
RALPH PETERS The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest probl...
RALPH PETERS The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hu...
RALPH PETERS In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
RALPH PETERS My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
RALPH NORMAN My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do ...
RALPH NORMAN Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I t...
RALPH NORMAN I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as c...
RALPH NORMAN What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free p...
RALPH NORMAN Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan t...
RALPH NORMAN My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
RALPH NORMAN I am a businessman.
RALPH NORMAN I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
RALPH NORMAN Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new ...
RALPH NORMAN I believe in the free enterprise system.
RALPH NORMAN John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it...
RALPH NORMAN I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the fe...
RALPH NORMAN If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes.
RALPH NORMAN Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
RALPH NADER It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the...
RALPH NADER I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and c...
RALPH NADER This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
RALPH NADER Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
RALPH NADER Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral bas...
RALPH NADER The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
RALPH NADER Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
RALPH NADER The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf...
RALPH NADER No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
RALPH NADER The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by pe...
RALPH NADER John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, b...
RALPH NADER The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their...
RALPH NADER A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
RALPH NADER The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
RALPH NADER A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energ...
RALPH NADER If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
RALPH NADER If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its p...
RALPH MERKLE Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is v...
RALPH MERKLE Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific ...
RALPH MERKLE One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resou...
RALPH MERKLE One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger m...
RALPH MERKLE There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of ...
RALPH MERKLE A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll...
RALPH MERKLE Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today&#...
RALPH MERKLE One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing...
RALPH MERKLE We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost...
RALPH MERKLE We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
RALPH MERKLE If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most ...
RALPH MERKLE The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, an...
RALPH MERKLE Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditio...
RALPH MERKLE If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your hea...
RALPH MERKLE Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce fo...
RALPH MERKLE Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a...
RALPH MERKLE Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
RALPH MERKLE Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power i...
RALPH MERKLE Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
RALPH MARSTON If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choos...
RALPH MARSTON There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them...
RALPH MARSTON Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how ...
RALPH MARSTON The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is g...
RALPH MARSTON Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you'...
RALPH MARSTON Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to c...
RALPH MARSTON Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
RALPH MARSTON Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each mo...
RALPH MARSTON Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet ...
RALPH MARSTON