Ralph Fiennes Quotes
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Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
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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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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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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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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 like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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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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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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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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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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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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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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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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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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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting 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 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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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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When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.