Ralph Fiennes Quotes
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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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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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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'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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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I have no regrets.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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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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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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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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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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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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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.