Joseph Fiennes movie quotes

“Every love story is a tragedy if you wait long enough.”
Joseph Fiennes - Fred Waterford

“Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse for some.”
Joseph Fiennes - Fred Waterford

“- Adam Tallis: If you trusted me... you wouldn't be in this position, Alice.
- Alice: I just... I just wanted to know more about you... I wanted to know your past. And I wanted to know your stories. I just thought if I knew more... that I could love you more. I know the only thing that matters is us together. I know that. Because when you're not...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joseph Fiennes - Adam Tallis
Heather Graham - Alice

“- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: You will be Elizabeth, Queen of England. A court to worship you, a country to obey you, poems written celebrating your beauty, music composed in your honor, and they will mean nothing to you. I will mean nothing to you.
- Elizabeth I: How could you ever be nothing to me? You know you are everything to me.”
Joseph Fiennes - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I

When I first arrived in Hollywood, I met a studio executive who said, "Loved your work, Joe". When I asked what he had seen me in, he said, "Nothing".
Joseph Fiennes

“We spend our lives searching for our other half.”
Joseph Fiennes - Adam Tallis

“A broad river divides my lovers: family, duty, fate. As unchangeable as nature.”

Joseph Fiennes - Will Shakespeare

“- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: You blush, Lady Knollys. Are you in love?
- Isabel Knollys: No, my lord.
- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Then you should be, or waste all that beauty.”
Joseph Fiennes - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Kelly Macdonald - Isabel Knollys

“Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.”
Joseph Fiennes - Will Shakespeare

“- Proteus: Do you have a plan?
- Sinbad: Uh... how about try not to get killed?”
Joseph Fiennes - Proteus
Brad Pitt - Sinbad

“- Adam Tallis: Don't turn away. Come here tomorrow.
- Alice: I have to work.
- Adam Tallis: Then come back tonight.
- Alice: I can't.
- Adam Tallis: Whenever you want, Alice. You decide, and I'll be here.”
Joseph Fiennes - Adam Tallis
Heather Graham - Alice

“Man will always be a man. There is no new man. We tried so hard to create a society that was equal, where there'd be nothing to envy your neighbour. But there's always something to envy. A smile, a friendship, something you don't have and want to appropriate.”
Joseph Fiennes - Commisar Danilov

“Remember who you are. Do not be afraid of them.”

Joseph Fiennes - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

I think he's a genius. Like when I was your age, and I'd have a rage seizure, he'd put on music to lower my blood pressure. Nat King Cole. "Stardust". Revolutionary sort of stuff, you know? Worked everytime.
Joseph Fiennes - Neil Bookman

“In finding the right person you need someone with all the right similarities, yet all the right differences. Someone to read your mind instinctively, yet cover your weaknesses.”
Joseph Fiennes - Laurence

- Neil Bookman: "The Angry Nun" by Neil Bookman: "Bitch! Whore of Jesus! Dressed in black, you do not bleed, like a woman should bleed between the legs! But with your ruler, your crucifix of hatred, you strike my tender flesh! I bleed for you! Oh, mother".
- Deirdre Burroughs: Good anger! It ended exactly at the right moment.
Joseph Fiennes - Neil Bookman
Annette Bening - Deirdre Burroughs

“- Commisar Danilov: Where have you been? We've been looking all over for you.
- Vassili: Oh, did you hear? I was dead. At least, Noble Sniper Zeitsev, Vassili was dead.”
Joseph Fiennes - Commisar Danilov
Jude Law - Vassili

“- Adam Tallis: It's been two years, and it doesn't go away.
- Alice: I live with someone.
- Adam Tallis: But you're here.
- Alice: I have to go.”

Joseph Fiennes - Adam Tallis
Heather Graham - Alice

“- Neil Bookman: Why won't you let me live in this house and be a part of this family?
- Dr. Finch: Because I am the patriarch! And when the patriarch says jump, you jump, goddamnit! You don't co-operate, Neil, and for that, you're punished!”
Joseph Fiennes - Neil Bookman
Brian Cox - Dr. Finch

“I'd just been knocked unconscious and now an American, who'd never driven a stick shift, was driving my car down the wrong side of the road.”
Joseph Fiennes - Laurence

“- Viola De Lesseps: I loved a writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.
- Will Shakespeare: I was the more deceived.
- Viola De Lesseps: Yes, you were deceived, for I did not know how much I loved you.”
Gwyneth Paltrow - Viola De Lesseps
Joseph Fiennes - Will Shakespeare

“When I get nervous, I never say anything. I just sit there and get uptight.”
Joseph Fiennes - Laurence

“- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Marry me.
- Elizabeth I: On a night such as this, could any woman say no?
- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: On a night such as this, could a queen say no?
- Elizabeth I: Does not a queen sit under the same stars as any other woman?”
Joseph Fiennes - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I

“Here, the men's only choice is between German bullets and ours. But there's another way. The way of courage. The way of love of the Motherland. We must publish the army newspaper again. We must tell magnificent stories, stories that extol sacrifice, bravery. We must make them believe in the victory. We must give them hope, pride, a desire to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joseph Fiennes - Commisar Danilov

“- Viola De Lesseps: I would not have thought it: there is something better than a play!
- Will Shakespeare: There is.
- Viola De Lesseps: Even your play.
- Will Shakespeare: Hmm?
- Viola De Lesseps: And that was only my first try.”

Gwyneth Paltrow - Viola De Lesseps
Joseph Fiennes - Will Shakespeare