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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. (Ralph Fiennes)

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

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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.

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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.

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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

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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.

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

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

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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

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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)

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.

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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

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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.

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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.

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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

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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.

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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

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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.

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You dread that there will be real problems during filming. (Ralph Fiennes)

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

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

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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

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

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Ralph Fiennes

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Photo: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0

Occupation: British Actor
Born: December 22, 1962
Quotes count: 58
Wikipedia: Ralph Fiennes

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