Ralph Fiennes Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Ralph Fiennes Quotes and Sayings
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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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 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 don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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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 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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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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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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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 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.
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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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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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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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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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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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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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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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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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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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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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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
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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.
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Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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