Ralph Fiennes Quotes
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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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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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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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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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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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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 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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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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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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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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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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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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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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When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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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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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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I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
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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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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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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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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.