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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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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I have no regrets.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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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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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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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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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 certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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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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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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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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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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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.
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I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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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.
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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.