Quotes By Ralph Fiennes

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

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

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.