Quotes By Ralph Fiennes

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

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

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

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.

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 respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

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

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

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

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

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.

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

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

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

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

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

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

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.

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

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

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 no regrets.