Ralph Fiennes Quotes (68 Quotes)

There are moments when anger spits out of him at Harry and other moments when he can be almost pleasant. You never quite know what he's going to do. People are incredibly scary when they're charming but you suspect they might suddenly do something very violent. If you sit across the table from someone who offers you a glass of wine and a present, but you know that he stabbed his wife to death, it's quite unnerving.

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

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

What I liked about the story is that it throws up all these questions. The movie teases the audience. 'Is she having an affair'

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

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

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

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

That's the last thing that I would do. I wouldn't be that patronizing.

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 couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

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

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

The patience, the tenacity of the gardener for me, it's the spirit of Tessa.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

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.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.