Famous Quotes

"Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself."

Ralph Fiennes on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Ralph Fiennes

• "When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it."

• "One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor."

• "One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor."

• "Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself."

• "Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film."