More - Ralph Fiennes Quotes

Justin was a chance to play what I don't quite succeed at. There's a bit of Justin that I'm not, but I'd like to be,

Ralph Fiennes

 

I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theater, there's the acting part of acting -- and I'm not saying that can't be great -- and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul.

Ralph Fiennes

 Acting And Actors

[Is a fiction film particularly well equipped to do the kind of work we usually associate with investigative or advocacy journalism?] No, I don't think it can be, especially if it has to serve a dramatic narrative, ... Everyone asks questions about the polemical side of the film, but for me it's also about a relationship between two people, their openness with each other, or their decision as a couple not to share, thinking they're respecting each other's privacy. People don't always tell each other what they need to know—not because they've got anything to hide, like a love affair, but because they don't want to invade. Our ability to be honest with each other, to say, I want this or I don't want that, it's all a distant cousin of what happens on the level of social policy, and it's who we are, isn't it? Politics starts in the bedroom.

Ralph Fiennes

 Fiction

The patience, the tenacity of the gardener for me, it's the spirit of Tessa.

Ralph Fiennes

 Patience

Harry Potter & the Goblet...

Ralph Fiennes

 

Justin isn't going to respond angrily ... he's going to carefully say, 'What was she doing?

Ralph Fiennes

 

Yes, it's depressing when there's a lack of clean water and sanitation, ... But here are people living lives of vitality. I only felt welcomed.

Ralph Fiennes

 Living

He said Quayle's the sort who'd be good at rowing or playing rugby, ... I know rugby players. They run hard and they tackle hard, but then they go off the field and they can be quite gentle.

Ralph Fiennes

 

I'm an avid reader of magazines like The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books , ... Sometimes they have articles about what big corporations are up to.

Ralph Fiennes

 Books And Reading

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

Ralph Fiennes

 British Actor