Ralph Fiennes quotes

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. (Ralph Fiennes)
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. View quote
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real. View quote
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about. View quote
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. View quote
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. View quote
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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. View quote
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything. View quote
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong. View quote
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In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system. View quote
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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed. (Ralph Fiennes)
We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other. View quote
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming. View quote
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research. View quote
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There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!' View quote
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there. View quote
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The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second. View quote
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it. View quote
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai. View quote
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I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. View quote
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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. (Ralph Fiennes)
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment. View quote
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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer. View quote
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