Quotes By Ralph Fiennes

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

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

I have no regrets.

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.

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.

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

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

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

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 have grown up loving Shakespeare.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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