List of Ralph Fiennes Quotes

We Are Now Living In A Jungle Where The Strong Eats The Weak,we Are Not Better Than The Arabs To Despise Them.

When She Was Younger, My Mother Was Quite Committed To Roman Catholicism. But She Got Disillusioned With It And Moved Closer To Something Like Buddhist Beliefs Near The End Of Her Life.

I Felt It [shakespeare's Coriolanus] Is Sort Of An Examination Of Our Dysfunction As A Nationalistic, Tribal Entities. I Think The World Is Rocking And Cracking Open In Weird And Worrying Places. And I Think Coriolanus, The Play, Reflected That.

I'm Not Very Good At Being Domesticated. I've Tried. The Domestic Life I Find Claustrophobic - The Rituals And Habits And Patterns.

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.

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."

It [the Scene] Can Be Something Given To You And You Go, "ah This Is A Good Idea, I Can Work With This." Sometimes It Cuts Right Across Your Instinct And That's When I Might Resist. Even If The Director Might Be Insistent, I Think It's Very Important To Say, "look, I'm Not Feeling This. I'll Try To Make It Work But I Got To Let You Know."

It's Not Great If Someone Gives You Sort Of Bland Praise Without Giving You Clear Direction And Say, "this Is Good, Let's Try It Like This." I Have Worked With Someone Who Seemed Quite Inarticulate And Just Would Say, "that's Good, That's Good." That's Very Frustrating Because - It's Nice To Know Something Is Good But You Know It Can Always Change.

Like Anything To Do With Trust, In Any Relationship It Emerges And Just The Chemistry, Vibe Between Two People An Actor And A Director. You Just Know Whether This Is Someone I Like To Be With Whose Interaction With Me I Believe In.

I Certainly Gained A Lot By Reading About Shanghai.

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.

Most Films Are Rooted In A Book Or A Comic Strip, But I Don't Go Out There Saying I Want To Do Adaptations.