Quotes by Ralph Fiennes, page 2

Ralph Fiennes - british Actor

Also called: Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.

Was born on 22 dec 1962.

I very rarely have had a complete sort of confrontation. I just think you've got to have a very true collaboration.

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about contentment

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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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.

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about research

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

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about thinking, people

I'm not very good at confrontation.

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about good, good luck

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

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about things

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

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about love, time, contentment

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.

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about language, film, things

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

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about nation, people, contentment

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about film, work

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

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about real estate

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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My mother was quite anarchic and yet she had quite a moral code about personal responsibility. She was constantly stimulating her children's imaginations.

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about mother, children, moral

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about humor, family, common sense, sense, things

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

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about faith, film

The hype for this particular Harry Potter film-I don't really feel it. I don't have a fan's investment in the books myself.

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about books, film

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

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about contentment

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.

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about conversation, humanity, moment, contentment

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.

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about writers, world, contentment

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

RQuote by Ralph Fiennes about nation, journalism, people