"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."

Act, Trying

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"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."

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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

William James, American Philosopher

Act, Difference, Will

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Act, Liberty, Sheep

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Act, Misery, Will

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Act, Mind, Reflection, Thinking

"The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable."

Horace, Roman Poet

Act, Water

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Act, Fashion, Joy, Motherhood

"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Act, Desire, Man, World

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Act, Heaven

"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

Act, Being, Preaching, Sermons

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"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."

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"In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time."

Time

"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."

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"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."

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"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."

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"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away."

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"There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming."

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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

"The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable."

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

Explore more quotes by Ralph Fiennes

"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."

"In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time."

"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."

"It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that."

"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."

"Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film."

"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."

"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."

"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away."

"There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming."