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. (Ralph Fiennes)
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. (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)
A Merchant Ivory film, It's quite hard to finance this kind of film, so there's a sort of pressure to move through the day and get it done. (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)
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there. (Ralph Fiennes)
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. (Ralph Fiennes)
It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that. (Ralph Fiennes)
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. (Ralph Fiennes)
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. (Ralph Fiennes)
You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about. (Ralph Fiennes)
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script. (Ralph Fiennes)
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. (Ralph Fiennes)
I don't think I can be a spokesperson about the problems (concerning the pharmaceutical industry), but the key area of concern is accessibility of drugs, especially for malaria, HIV and tuberculosis. The drugs exist but are they getting to the people that need them (Ralph Fiennes)
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. (Ralph Fiennes)