Quotes by Joseph Fiennes

Joseph Fiennes

‘How do you balance the creative with the biblical?’ One could pick up the scripture and read it to oneself and you would be communing directly with that information. As soon as you go into film, as soon as there’s a camera, and there’s an angle, and there’s lighting, and there’s editing, you’re into the adaptation.

Biblical

Creative

Editing

A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what’s around you, and none more so than in a period piece. This is a modern piece, as much as it is set in a different time, age and myth. If it wasn’t relevant, it wouldn’t have been made and we wouldn’t be putting our energy into it. It’s relevant for us today because, in some ways, it throws up a mirror to all of us. As an actor, you get stimulus and you’re effected by that, whether it’s costumes or funny beards or castles.

Age

Castles

Mirrors

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?

Hollywood Films

Judging

Mean

Conditioning can be not a big heavy thing. (For instance:) I’ve got a brand new pair of shoes, by mistake you step on it and you make them muddy and dirty, I’m conditioned to go “Hey, what are you doing?” That’s my conditioning, I have a response. So, maybe we have to learn to find the pause before we react, because reaction is our conditioning.

Dirty

Mistake

Shoes

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.

Age

People

School

He [Merlin] is slightly from another world and place, so it [challenge in bringing the role to life] is about having fun and presenting it in a new way. He’s more of a politician, and slightly Machiavellian, but there’s also a lovely relationship going on between Merlin and Arthur. There’s so much to be had, really.

Fun

Lovely

World

he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There’s a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic.

Angel

Character

Fun

I also wanted to have fun with it. I wanted to have the scope, which I felt Merlin has, in his Machiavellian bi-polar way. He’s not to be trusted, yet he is fighting for this great power and is really a master, to some degree, in orchestrating Camelot and King Arthur. He’s a strange, dark devious character, and I just wanted to have fun, and get away from the cloak and long beard and pointy hat.

Character

Fun

Kings

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.

Process

Sometimes

Trying

I don’t know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

Challenges

Knows

Looks

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Abhorrent

Again And Again

Age

Angel

Baby

Behavior

Believe

Biblical

Blessing

Blood

Book

Brain

Castles

Challenges

Character

Christ

Compassion

Couple

Creative

Dark

Dirty

Dream

Editing

Ends

Experts

Facts

Failing

Falling In Love

Film

Finding The One

Flow

Fun

Guides

Heart

Hollywood Films

Horse

Humble

Icons

Jobs

Joy

Judging

Kings

Knows

Library

Long

Looks

Love

Love Is

Love Life

Lovely

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Quotes by Joseph Fiennes

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?

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.

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.

I don’t know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

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