Ralph Fiennes movie quotes

“- Dmitri: If I learn you ever once laid a finger on my mother's body, living or dead, I swear to God, I'll cut your throat! You hear me?
- M. Gustave: I thought I was supposed to be a fucking faggot.
- Dmitri: You are, but you're bisexual.”
Adrien Brody - Dmitri
Ralph Fiennes - M. Gustave

“- Zero: What happened?
- M. Gustave: What happened, my dear Zero, is I beat the living shit out of a sniveling little runt called Pinky Bandinski, who had the gall to question my virility. Because, if there's one thing we've learned from penny dreadfuls, it's that when you find yourself in a place like this, you must never be a candy ass; you've...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tony Revolori - Zero
Ralph Fiennes - M. Gustave

“We were friends. We were better than brothers.”

Ralph Fiennes - Harry Hawkes

“- Paul De Smedt: Harry, come on, that's a grave.
- Harry Hawkes: Yeah, well, Europe is a grave.”
Matthias Schoenaerts - Paul De Smedt
Ralph Fiennes - Harry Hawkes

“- Gareth Mallory: M, you've had a great run. You should leave with dignity.
- M: Go to hell with dignity. I'll leave when the job's done.”
Ralph Fiennes - Gareth Mallory
Dame Judi Dench - M

“- Jerry Siegel: Who the hell is she?
- Christopher Marshall: I'll tell you who she isn't. She isn't like anyone I've ever met before. And she isn't a phony. I'll make you a deal, wonder man. You want me at the benefit tomorrow night? Then get her to go, and I swear to God, I'll shake any part of Maddox's body you want me to. Deal?
- Jerry Siegel...” (continue)(continue reading)

Stanley Tucci - Jerry Siegel
Ralph Fiennes - Christopher Marshall

- M. Gustave: I'm not angry with Serge; you can't blame someone for their basic lack of moral fiber. He's a frightened little yellow-bellied coward. It's not his fault, is it?
- Zero: I don't know, it depends.
- M. Gustave: Well, you can say that about most anything, "it depends". Of course it depends.
- Zero: Of course it depends, of course it... (continue)(continue reading)
Ralph Fiennes - M. Gustave
Tony Revolori - Zero

“What is a lobby boy? A lobby boy is completely invisible, yet always in sight. A lobby boy remembers what people hate. A lobby boy anticipates the client's needs before the needs are needed. A lobby boy is, above all, discreet to a fault. Our guests know that their deepest secrets, some of which are frankly rather unseemly, will go with us to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ralph Fiennes - M. Gustave

“We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.”
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“There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.”
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“I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.”
Ralph Fiennes

“You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.”
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“- Mark Van Doren: Why don't you just put it in the bank Charlie? That's what I've always done with my prize money.
- Charles Van Doren: It's just, you don't understand dad, it's, there are all sorts of tax implications.
- Mark Van Doren: You think I can't understand the concept of taxes.
- Charles Van Doren: At this level it's a bit more...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Scofield - Mark Van Doren
Ralph Fiennes - Charles Van Doren

“We are afraid to see clearly and of being seen clearly.”
Ralph Fiennes - Adam Sors

I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed at the horizon and said, "Faya!". That was a good day.
Ralph Fiennes - Almásy

“I hate you, God. I hate you as though you existed.”
Ralph Fiennes - Maurice Bendrix

“- Caroline Lane: The woman you thought was a guest on this floor is the maid on this floor. Aren't you Marisa?
- Christopher Marshall: No. Wait, her name is Caroline.
- Caroline Lane: No, Chris, darling, that's my name. She steals clothes, identities...
- Christopher Marshall: What the hell's happening here?”

Natasha Richardson - Caroline Lane
Ralph Fiennes - Christopher Marshall

“Rudeness is merely an expression of fear. People fear they won't get what they want. The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved, and they will open up like a flower.”
Ralph Fiennes - M. Gustave

“- Pinky: Me and the boys talked it over. We think you're a really straight fellow.
- M. Gustave: Well, I've never been accused of that before, but I appreciate the sentiment.”
Florian Lukas - Pinky
Ralph Fiennes - M. Gustave

“- Charles Van Doren: Dad, I can't simply just tell them the truth.
- Mark Van Doren: Can't tell them the truth? Why on earth not?
- Charles Van Doren: Because it's complicated.
- Mark Van Doren: Complicated?”
Ralph Fiennes - Charles Van Doren
Paul Scofield - Mark Van Doren

“You are privy to a great becoming, but you recognize nothing. To me, you are a slug in the sun. You are an ant in the afterbirth. It is your nature to do one thing correctly. Before me, you rightly tremble. But, fear is not what you owe me. You owe me awe.”
Ralph Fiennes - Francis Dolarhyde

“- Gareth Mallory: I only have one question. Why not - stay dead? You have the perfect way out. Go and live, quietly somewhere. Not many field agents get to leave this cleanly.
- James Bond: Do you get out in the field much?
- Gareth Mallory: You don't need to be an operative to see the obvious. It's a young man's game.”
Ralph Fiennes - Gareth Mallory
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“- Reiter: I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan.
- Amon Goeth: Ah, an educated Jew... like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer!”
Elina Löwensohn - Diana Reiter
Ralph Fiennes - Amon Goeth

“Everyone needs to take a walk to the dark end of the street sometimes, it's what we are.”
Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero

“Trust no one. Examine all things yourself. Do not join with power. Despise all rank. Do not be ostentatious with what is yours. Owning possessions and property ultimately comes to nothing. Possessions and property can be consumed by fire, swept away by flood, taken away by politics. Do not undertake what you do not know. This causes anxiety...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ralph Fiennes - Adam Sors