Ralph Fiennes Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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 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.”

“I have grown up loving Shakespeare.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.”

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

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

“I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.”