Top 33 Ralph Fiennes Quotes

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

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

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.

We’d all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

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

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.

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.

I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

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

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

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.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

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

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they’re tender. They have to be persistent.

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

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.

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

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

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 a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

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.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven’t got time to mess about.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

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

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

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

I don’t feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they’re extremely well informed.