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Ralph Fiennes [1962-0] British

Rank: 102
Actor

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor. A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre.

Experience, Family, Gardening, Humor, Imagination, Movies, Patience

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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.	Family, Humor	101
You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.		102
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.	Experience, Imagination	103
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.		104
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.		105
We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.		106
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!'		107
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.		108
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.		109
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.		110
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.		111
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.		112
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.	Movies	113
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.		114
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.	Gardening, Patience	115
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.		116
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.		117
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.		118
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.		119
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.		120
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.		121
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.		122
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.		123
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.		124
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.		125
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.		126
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.		201
I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.		202
I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.		203
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.		204
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.		205
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.		206
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.		207
It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.		208
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.		209
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.		210
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.		211
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.		212
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.		213
What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.		214
I have grown up loving Shakespeare.		215
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.		216
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.		217
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.		218
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.		219
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.		220
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.		221
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.		222
The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.		223
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.		224
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.		225
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.		226
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.		301
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.		302
You dread that there will be real problems during filming.		303
When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.		304
I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.		305
I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.		306
I have no regrets.		307

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