Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.