Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

…the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn’t work…We’re all so connected. We can’t spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.

Distance

Helping Others

Worry

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.

Hate

Keys

Thinking

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.

Needs

Two

Years

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.

Actors

Running

Want

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

Actors

Awards

Likes

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

Fighting

Keys

People

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.

Events

Father

Would Be

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.

Aphrodisiac

Devil

Empathy

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.

Addiction

Book

Character

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.

Bodybuilder

Guy

Weight

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Actors

Addiction

Adventure

Aphrodisiac

Art

Attention

Awards

Awkward

Being Real

Belief

Bodybuilder

Book

Challenges

Character

Children

Clear Direction

Cutting

Devil

Different

Distance

Distillation

Dread

Ease

Editing

Empathy

Events

Evil

Expectations

Family

Fantasy

Father

Feelings

Feels

Felt

Fighting

Film

Firsts

Fit

Giving

Grateful

Gun

Guy

Habit

Had A Great Time

Hate

Heavy

Helping Others

Ideas

Infrastructure

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Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

…the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn’t work…We’re all so connected. We can’t spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.

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.

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.

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.

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

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.

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.

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.

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.

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