Quotes By Ralph Fiennes

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 think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

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

I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

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.

I have no regrets.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

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

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.

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

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 never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

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

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.