Quotes from Joseph Fiennes movies and TV shows

Commisar Danilov: Do you know how to shoot?
Vassili Zaitsev: A little.

Vassili Zaitsev: He shot him on the run. It was an impossible shot.
Commisar Danilov: Vassili.
Vassili Zaitsev: You've promised people a victory I can't deliver. I don't stand a chance against this man.

Commisar Danilov: Where have you been? We've been looking all over for you.
Vassili Zaitsev: Oh, did you hear? I was dead. At least, Noble Sniper Zeitsev, Vassili was dead.

Commisar Danilov: I've been such a fool, Vassili. Man will always be a man. There is no new man. We tried so hard to create a society that was equal, where there'd be nothing to envy your neighbour. But there's always something to envy. A smile, a friendship, something you don't have and want to appropriate. In this world, even a Soviet one, there will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts, poor in gifts. Rich in love, poor in love.

Martin Luther: Unless I am convinced by Scripture and by plain reason and not by Popes and councils who have so often contradicted themselves, my conscience is captive to the word of God. To go against conscience is neither right nor safe. I cannot and I will not recant. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me.

Martin Luther: The Fourth Lateran Council ruled that salvation could exist outside the church, though not outside Christ.

Martin Luther: So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know one who suffered and made satisfaction in my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, son of God, and where He is, there I shall be also.

Martin Luther: That day when you sent me out so boldly to change the world, did you really think there wouldn't be a cost?

Martin Luther: I cannot and I will not recant. Here I stand.

Martin Luther: So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!"

Laurence: When I get nervous, I never say anything. I just sit there and get uptight.

Bassanio: Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice.

Bassanio: So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament.

Bassanio: Why, I were best to cut my left hand off And swear I lost the ring defending it.

Bassanio: Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth.
Portia: Well then, confess, and live.
Bassanio: 'Confess' and 'love' had been the very sum of my confession.

Yeshua: What frightens you?
Clavius: Being wrong.

Pilate: The Nazarene... did you find him different?
Clavius: I found him dead.

Clavius: I have seen two things which cannot reconcile: A man dead without question, and that same man alive again. I pursue Him, the Nazarene, to ferret the truth.

Pilate: Your ambition is noticed. Where do you hope it will lead?
Clavius: Rome.
Pilate: And?
Clavius: Position. Power.
Pilate: Which brings?
Clavius: Wealth. A good family. Someday, a place in the country.
Pilate: Where you'll find?
Clavius: An end to travail. A day without death. Peace.
Pilate: All that for peace? Is there no other way?

Clavius: Yahweh manifests himself through a crazy, poor dead Jew?
Bartholomew: Well, so it appears.
Clavius: What does this rebirth mean?
Bartholomew: Eternal life! For everyone. For everyone who believes.