Ralph Fiennes Quotes
"Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: 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
(Related: Time)
"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
(Related: People, Kids)
"I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Reading)
"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
(Related: Right, Weight)
"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Power, Actors, Beliefs, May)
"I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Work, Career)
"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
(Related: People)
"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Ideas, Talk, Want)
"I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights."
- Ralph Fiennes
"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Act, Trying)
"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."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Act, Film, First, Language)
"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."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Research)
"I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Thought, People)
"I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Acting)
"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."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Books, World)
"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Quality, Patience)
"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."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Actor, Want)
"The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second."
- Ralph Fiennes
"The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Belief, Film)
"One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Family, Humor, Sense)
"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
(Related: Saying, Want)
"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Feeling, Moments)
"I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script."
- Ralph Fiennes
"There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: People)
"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."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Challenge, Fantasy, World, 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."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Conversation, Humanity, Moments)
"It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: People)
"You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Evil)
"We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: People, Killing)
"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."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Life, Mother, Buddhist, Beliefs, Catholicism, End)
"Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur."
- Ralph Fiennes
"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Distrust, Feeling)
"You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Time)