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
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There's only one day to shoot one scene, you don't get a second chance. You've got to say, This is what I feel. Could I try this?
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When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, you're ready to feel shocked and some degree of shame, coming in as a rich westerner.
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We were in real places, with real people. That is Fernando's gift. The Kenyan background is like an extra character, an active pulse within the drama.
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We were in real places, with real people. That is Fernando's gift, ... The Kenyan background is like an extra character, an active pulse within the drama.
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Daniel had to put up with a lot from me. Here's a boy who's tied up with a man pushing his finger into the wound on his head, laughing and delighting in the pain he's causing. He had to act as though he was in agony and terror without having many words to say. I was full of admiration for him.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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Any idealistic activity outside of my work is something confined to a few field trips with UNICEF in Uganda,
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I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theater, there's the acting part of acting -- and I'm not saying that can't be great -- and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul.
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You want to have a critical success and you want people to go see it. It's disappointing if something's well reviewed and no one goes to see it.
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I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.
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The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there."
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Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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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.