Quotes By Ralph Fiennes

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

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

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

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 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.

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

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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!'