Top 100 Fiennes Quotes
#1. Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.
Alice Eve
#2. There are many actors I admire, but I always look at people who have done a variety of roles - people such as Simon Russell Beale or Ralph Fiennes.
Rupert Evans
#3. I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed.
Steve Guttenberg
#4. I was nervous. I was thinking, 'Gee, he's Ralph Fiennes. What an amazing actor, and I can have this scene with him.' But I enjoyed it, you know. That's what I got into acting to do - to push myself and see if I can do these things.
Matthew Lewis
#5. There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.
Michael Palin
#6. Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.
Vance Joy
#7. I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.
Joseph Fiennes
#8. Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
Ralph Fiennes
#9. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#10. If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
Ralph Fiennes
#11. 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
#12. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#13. I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes
#14. I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
Ralph Fiennes
#15. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#16. 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
#17. I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.
Joseph Fiennes
#18. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#19. I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
Ralph Fiennes
#20. I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.
Joseph Fiennes
#21. It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result.
Joseph Fiennes
#22. It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.
Joseph Fiennes
#24. In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.
Ralph Fiennes
#25. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#26. You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
Ralph Fiennes
#27. It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.
Ranulph Fiennes
#28. I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.
Ralph Fiennes
#29. I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
Joseph Fiennes
#30. Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.
Joseph Fiennes
#31. I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
Ranulph Fiennes
#32. I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.
Joseph Fiennes
#33. You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
Ralph Fiennes
#34. I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
Ralph Fiennes
#35. I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
Ralph Fiennes
#36. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#37. Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.
Joseph Fiennes
#38. While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.
Ranulph Fiennes
#39. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#40. Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Ralph Fiennes
#41. There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.
Joseph Fiennes
#42. It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
Ralph Fiennes
#43. We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
Ralph Fiennes
#44. 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
#45. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#46. Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.
Joseph Fiennes
#47. In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
Ralph Fiennes
#49. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#50. You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
Ralph Fiennes
#51. 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."
Ralph Fiennes
#52. 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.
Joseph Fiennes
#53. When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!
Joseph Fiennes
#54. Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most
Ralph Fiennes
#56. One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
Ralph Fiennes
#57. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#58. There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
Ralph Fiennes
#59. No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.
Ranulph Fiennes
#60. When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
Ralph Fiennes
#61. 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!"
Ralph Fiennes
#62. The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth
Ranulph Fiennes
#63. Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Ralph Fiennes
#64. 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
Ralph Fiennes
#65. I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
Ralph Fiennes
#66. I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
Ralph Fiennes
#67. Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.
Ralph Fiennes
#68. I think all experience is, in some way, shape or form, filtered down to help you, in your present moment. With Shakespeare, you're trying to act with a fairly archaic language, although in certain aspects, it's deeply modern.
Joseph Fiennes
#69. Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.
Ranulph Fiennes
#70. There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.
Joseph Fiennes
#71. The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
Ralph Fiennes
#72. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#73. God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes
#74. You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
Ralph Fiennes
#75. I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.
Joseph Fiennes
#76. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#77. I wanted to say, "Hey, Pope Francis," but I cried like a baby. I was reduced to a very humble set of feelings, because it was not about what was said: There's a presence. That was a blessing for myself and my family and everyone there to be a part of that.
Joseph Fiennes
#78. People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.
Ranulph Fiennes
#79. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#80. As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
Ranulph Fiennes
#81. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#82. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#83. But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in 'The Dukes of Hazzard?' I mean, hello?
Joseph Fiennes
#84. I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
Ralph Fiennes
#85. Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
Ralph Fiennes
#86. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#87. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#88. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#89. I guess there's nothing I don't like about Merlin, in this presentation. I love everything, even the things I find despicable and abhorrent in Merlin. They're actually a joy to ride on the tailcoats of.
Joseph Fiennes
#90. What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
Ralph Fiennes
#91. 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.
Joseph Fiennes
#92. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#93. I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.
Joseph Fiennes
#94. The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.
Joseph Fiennes
#95. 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!'
Ralph Fiennes
#96. He [Merlin] is slightly from another world and place, so it's about having fun and presenting it in a new way. He's more of a politician, and slightly Machiavellian, but there's also a lovely relationship going on between Merlin and Arthur. There's so much to be had, really.
Joseph Fiennes
#97. 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.
Ralph Fiennes
#98. Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child.
Ralph Fiennes
#99. The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
Ralph Fiennes
#100. 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.
Joseph Fiennes
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