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
There is a bit of me if I’m pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite. – Joseph Fiennes
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
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? – Joseph Fiennes
I 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. – Joseph Fiennes
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
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
I think everything I do is my early work. I can’t wait to get on to the later stuff. – 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. – Joseph Fiennes
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
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