Joseph Fiennes Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

Give me a sword fight any day.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them.

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Trivia

In 1999, Joseph was chosen as one of People Magazine's '50 Most Sexiest Stars'.

Joseph's nickname is Joe.

In 1999, Joseph won the BFCA Award for Breakthrough Artist for his work in the 1998 film Elizabeth.

Joseph was once a reporter for the BBC's Breakfast News.

Joseph's mother, Jennifer Lash, was a novelist.

He is an ambassador of The Prince's Trust, an organization seeking to "help out young people get their lives working".

Joseph used to be a vegetarian, but he's now back to eating meat.

In 1998 he recieved the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards in the category Most Promising Actor for his role in Shakespeare in Love.

Joseph is well known for his apperance in the 1998 movie Shakespeare in Love.

He enjoyes working as a film actor, but he preferes to work on a stage.

Joseph says that his mother was the source of inspiration for him and his siblings when it came to investing time in what they really wanted to do.

His mother, Jini, died of breast cancer in 1993, at the age of 55.

He is the brother of Ralph Fiennes.

He is 6' tall.