Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennesis an English actor. A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 December 1962
CityIpswich, England
girl educational boys
Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.
mother children father
I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.
struggle thinking gist
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
research scene
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.
stories able cases
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
felt
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
art moving people
What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
awkward firsts
When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
kenya film infrastructure
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.
firsts language film
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.
scripts
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
ideas want stuff
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
real being-real might
Voldemort? That might be real.