Ralph Fiennes movie quotes

“Why are people always so happy when they collide with someone from the same place? What happened in Montreal when you passed a man in the street? Did you invite him to live with you?”

Ralph Fiennes - Almásy

“- Emma Peel: I suppose Mother warned you about women like me.
- John Steed: Until now, I didn't know there were women like you.”
Uma Thurman - Dr. Emma Peel
Ralph Fiennes - John Steed

“- Charles Van Doren: I'm just trying to imagine what Kant would make of this.
- Albert Freedman: I don't think he'd have a problem with it.”
Ralph Fiennes - Charles Van Doren
Hank Azaria - Albert Freedman

“- Katharine Clifton: I'm impressed you can sew.
- Almásy: Good.
- Katharine Clifton: You sew very badly.
- Almásy: You don't sew at all.
- Katharine Clifton: A woman should never learn to sew, and if she can she shouldn't admit to it.”
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Katharine Clifton
Ralph Fiennes - Almásy

“- Lenny: I didn't know you were color blind, Max.
- Max: It was the only way I could stand your ties.”
Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero
Tom Sizemore - Max Peltier

“- Palmer Strickland: Nero.
- Lenny Nero: Strickland.
- Palmer Strickland: Commissioner Strickland!
- Lenny Nero: See, since you shit-canned my career, I don't even have to call you sir. One of life's small pleasures.”
Josef Sommer - Palmer Strickland
Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero

“- Policeman 1: For a diplomat you're not a very good liar.
- Justin Quayle: Well, I haven't risen very high.”
Peter King Nzioki - Policeman 1
Ralph Fiennes - Justin Quayle

“- Marisa Ventura: There was a part of me that wanted to know what it felt like, to have someone like you look at me the way you did just once. And I'm sorry. Truly. If I could rewind the past week, I would.
- Christopher Marshall: Was any of it real?
- Marisa Ventura: Yeah, it was real. It was so real I wondered how I was ever gunna give you up....” (continue)(continue reading)
Jennifer Lopez - Marisa Ventura
Ralph Fiennes - Christopher Marshall

“- Christopher Marshall: You're beautiful.
- Marisa Ventura: So are you.
- Christopher Marshall: Thank you for being here.
- Marisa Ventura: I only came to tell you that this, you and me, can't go anywhere beyond this evening. It just can't.
- Christopher Marshall: Well, then, you should've worn a different dress.”
Ralph Fiennes - Christopher Marshall
Jennifer Lopez - Marisa Ventura

“- Maurice Bendrix: I'm jealous of this button.
- Sarah Miles: Poor, innocent button.
- Maurice Bendrix: It's not innocent at all. It's with you all day. I'm not.
- Sarah Miles: I suppose you're jealous of my shoes?
- Maurice Bendrix: Yes.
- Sarah Miles: Why?
- Maurice Bendrix: Because they'll take you away from me.”
Ralph Fiennes - Maurice Bendrix
Julianne Moore - Sarah Miles

“What particular body I currently occupy is trivial. The important thing is what I am becoming. I know that you alone can understand this transformation.”

Ralph Fiennes - Francis Dolarhyde

“You have to understand. I'm jealous of everything that moves. I'm jealous of the rain!”

Ralph Fiennes - Maurice Bendrix

“- Marisa Ventura: There's millions of women who are just dying for you to look their way.
- Christopher Marshall: Then why are you making me work so hard?”
Jennifer Lopez - Marisa Ventura
Ralph Fiennes - Christopher Marshall

“Religion may not be perfect, but it is a well-built boat that can stay balanced and carry you to the other shore. Our life is nothing but a boat adrift on water balanced by permanent uncertainty.”
Ralph Fiennes - Adam Sors

“- Dick Goodwin: I know you're lying.
- Charles Van Doren: Bluffing. The word is bluffing.”

Rob Morrow - Dick Goodwin
Ralph Fiennes - Charles Van Doren

“To be is to be perceived.”
Ralph Fiennes - Maurice Bendrix

- Katharine Clifton: Will we be alright?
- Almásy: Yes. Yes, absolutely.
- Katharine Clifton: "Yes" is a comfort. "Absolutely" is not.
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Katharine Clifton
Ralph Fiennes - Almásy

“- Sarah: Are you on a new book?
- Maurice Bendrix: Of course.
- Sarah: It's not about us, is it? The one you threatened to write?
- Maurice Bendrix: A book takes a year to write. It's too hard work for revenge.
- Sarah: If only you knew how little you had to revenge.
- Maurice Bendrix: I'm joking. We are adults. We knew it had to end some time.”
Julianne Moore - Sarah Miles
Ralph Fiennes - Maurice Bendrix

“- Amon Goeth: Shoot her.
- Reiter: Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!
- Amon Goeth: Ja, I'm doing mine.”
Ralph Fiennes - Amon Goeth
Elina Löwensohn - Diana Reiter

“- Mace: You're some piece of work, Lenny Nero. You're just calmly backstroking along in the big toilet bowl and somehow you never let it touch you. I mean, between working vice and your current so-called occupation, you must have seen every kind of perversion. But you're just like... some teflon man, you still come out this goofball romantic.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero
Angela Bassett - Lornette 'Mace' Mason

“You are entering a new world where you will certainly be successful because you have knowledge. Study has always been our religious duty as jews. Our exclusion from society has given us an ability to adapt to others and to sense connections between things that seem diverse.”
Ralph Fiennes - Ignatz Sonnenschein

“- John Steed: After all, according to your file, you're a psychopathic personality with schizophrenic delusions, suffering from recurring amnesia based on traumatic repression leading to outbursts of antisocial and violent behavior. Knight to king seven. Check.
- Emma Peel: Is that really what you think of me?
- John Steed: Well... just my type,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ralph Fiennes - John Steed
Uma Thurman - Dr. Emma Peel

“How can you ever smile, as if your life hadn't capsized?”
Ralph Fiennes - Almásy

“- Katharine Clifton: Promise me you'll come back for me.
- Almásy: I promise, I'll come back for you. I promise, I'll never leave you.”
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Katharine Clifton
Ralph Fiennes - Almásy

“About the people whom you will judge, know this; all they do is struggle to find a kind of security. They're just people, like us. Therefore you mustn't judge them on the basis of appearance or hearsay.”
Ralph Fiennes - Adam Sors