Ralph Fiennes Quotes
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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.
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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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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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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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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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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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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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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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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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I have no regrets.
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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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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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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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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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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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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.
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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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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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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.