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Type: Actor Quotes Category: British Actor Quotes Date of Birth: December 22, 1962 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Ralph Fiennes Related Authors: Derek Jacobi Peter Davison Alan Rickman Albert Finney Jason Statham Colin Firth Michael York |
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.
Ralph Fiennes Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. Ralph Fiennes 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. Ralph Fiennes 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. Ralph Fiennes I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai. Ralph Fiennes 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. Ralph Fiennes I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed. Ralph Fiennes I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut. Ralph Fiennes 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. Ralph Fiennes I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something. Ralph Fiennes I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights. Ralph Fiennes I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script. Ralph Fiennes I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it. Ralph Fiennes 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. Ralph Fiennes 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. Ralph Fiennes I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there. Ralph Fiennes I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. Ralph Fiennes In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time. Ralph Fiennes 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. Ralph Fiennes It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that. Ralph Fiennes Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya. Ralph Fiennes Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film. Ralph Fiennes Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real. Ralph Fiennes Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations. Ralph Fiennes One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. Ralph Fiennes The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship. Ralph Fiennes The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second. Ralph Fiennes 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. Ralph Fiennes 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. Ralph Fiennes There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming. Ralph Fiennes We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other. Ralph Fiennes 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. Ralph Fiennes Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur. Ralph Fiennes You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling. Ralph Fiennes You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about. Ralph Fiennes You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything. Ralph Fiennes |
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