Top 78 Ralph Fiennes Quotes
#1. Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
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#2. 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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#3. If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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#4. 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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#5. I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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#7. I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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#8. Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
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#9. 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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#10. Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.
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#11. I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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#13. In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.
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#14. I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theatre, there's the acting part of acting - and I'm not saying that can't be great - and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul.
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#15. You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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#16. I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.
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#17. You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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#18. I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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#19. I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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#20. I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.
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#21. The world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work ... We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.
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#22. Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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#23. It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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#24. We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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#28. 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.
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#29. You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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#30. The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there."
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#31. Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most
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#33. One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
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#34. I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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#35. There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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#36. When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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#37. It's great to be on a set where there's time and there's focus and there's also a kind of adrenaline thrill on a set where people are saying: "We have to get this shot, we've have to go, we've got to move on!"
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#38. Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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#39. Success ... Is all about being able to extend love to people ... not in a big capital-letter sense but in the everyday; little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word
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#40. I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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#41. I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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#42. Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.
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#43. The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
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#44. 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.
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#45. God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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#46. You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. I think I feel more like you're an actor for hire and you take the jobs you want to take, obviously, and some pay well and some don't pay well at all but you go on a gut feeling and it's all a big adventure.
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#51. I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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#52. Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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#53. When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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#57. I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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#58. 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!'
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#59. He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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#60. Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child.
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#61. The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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#62. When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.
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#63. There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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#64. I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that.
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#65. 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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#66. When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.
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#67. I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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#68. Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.
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#69. 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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#70. Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.
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#71. I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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#72. I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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#73. So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
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#74. The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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#75. I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
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#76. I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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#77. We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.
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#78. When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
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