Ralph Fiennes Quotes

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes

Good, Play, Tried

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

Trying, Understand, Why

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

Beautiful, Thought, Mount

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
Ralph Fiennes

Life, Good, Find

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

Work, Sense, Felt

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

Between, Gun, 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.
Ralph Fiennes

Time, Best, Able

It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
Ralph Fiennes

Two, Between, Energies

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

Film, Kenya, Hosting

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

Saying, Book, Films

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

Second, Brilliant, Fantastic

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

Coming, Journalist, Tabloid

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

Art, Question, Moves

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

Awkward, Filmed, Slightly

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
Ralph Fiennes

Death, Night, Theater

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
Ralph Fiennes

Real, Problems, Dread

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

Time, Mess, Edge

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
Ralph Fiennes

Evil, Playing, Meant

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.
Ralph Fiennes

Love, Try, Acting

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
Ralph Fiennes

Hate, Someone, Else

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
Ralph Fiennes

Work, Two, Away

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes

Experience, Yourself, End

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

Good, Kids, Face

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 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

Read, Stuff, Head

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: December 22, 1962

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