32 Quotes by 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.
- Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
- In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
- I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
- 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.
- I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
- 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.
- I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
- I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
- I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
- 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.
- 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.
- I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
- I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
- 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.
- Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
- 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.
- The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
- The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
- One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
- Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
- Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
- I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
- There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
- 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.
- 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.
- It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
- You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
- We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
- Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
- You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
- You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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