Ralph Fiennes Quotes
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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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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
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The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
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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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So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
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There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.