Ralph Fiennes – 8 Quotes

8 Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

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

– Ralph Fiennes

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it’s a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you’re not playing yourself.

– Ralph Fiennes

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

– Ralph Fiennes

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.

– Ralph Fiennes

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

– Ralph Fiennes

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.

– Ralph Fiennes

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

– Ralph Fiennes

The film depends on the audience’s belief in this relationship.

– Ralph Fiennes