Ralph Fiennes quotes

Ralph Fiennes is a renowned English actor and filmmaker, acclaimed for his versatile performances in film, theater, and television. His prominent roles include appearances in "Schindler's List," the "Harry Potter" series, and "The English Patient." He continues to captivate audiences with his talent and dedication to the performing arts. Here are 58 of his quotes:

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

Ralph Fiennes

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

Ralph Fiennes

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

Ralph Fiennes

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

Ralph Fiennes

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

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

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

Ralph Fiennes

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

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.

Ralph Fiennes

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

Ralph Fiennes

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

Ralph Fiennes

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.

Ralph Fiennes

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!'

Ralph Fiennes

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

Ralph Fiennes

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

Ralph Fiennes

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

Ralph Fiennes

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

Ralph Fiennes

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.

Ralph Fiennes

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

Ralph Fiennes

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Ralph Fiennes

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.

Ralph Fiennes

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.

Ralph Fiennes