Ralph Fiennes Quotes
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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 respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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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 don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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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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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 like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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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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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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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 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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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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When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
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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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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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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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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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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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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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The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.