Ralph Fiennes Quotes

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

Family, Humor, Sense

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.
Ralph Fiennes

Power, Him, Find

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
Ralph Fiennes

Days, Impulse, Aspires

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

She, Books, Characters

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

Acting, Sure, Deeply

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

Love, Thought, Guess

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
Ralph Fiennes

Unexpected, Within, Process

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

Good, Great, Patience

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes

Time, God, Human

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

Feeling, Real, Moments

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.
Ralph Fiennes

Love, Try, Acting

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
Ralph Fiennes

Film, Belief, Audience

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

Suffering, Between, Eat

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

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

Yourself, Feeling, Working

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
Ralph Fiennes

Hate, Someone, Else

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.
Ralph Fiennes

Work, Two, Away

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

Away, Actor, Run

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.
Ralph Fiennes

Experience, Yourself, End

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.
Ralph Fiennes

Movies, Father, Put

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

Good, Kids, Face

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
Ralph Fiennes

Reading, Gained, Shanghai

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

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

Time, Playing, Villains

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

Power, May, Whatever

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: December 22, 1962

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