Ralph Fiennes Quotes

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

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.

People fear they won’t get what they want.

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

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.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

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.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child.

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.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

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.

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.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

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.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

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 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.

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.

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 like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights...

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

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.

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

Voldemort? That might be real.

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

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.

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.