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All Quotes by author - 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. "
Imagination
Experience
Yourself
" Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. "
Gardening
Patience
Tender
" 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. "
Empathy
Find
Power
" I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. "
About
World
She
" I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face. "
Test
People
You
" I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai. "
Gained
Reading
Lot
" 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. "
Right
See
Down
" I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed. "
Power
Feel
Well
" I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut. "
Gut
Me
Go
" I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. "
Inside
Way
Head
" I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something. "
Ideas
Want
Up
" I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights. "
Never
Lift
Like
" I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. "
Neurotic
Sure
Thing
" In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time. "
You
Always
Other
" In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system. "
Language
More
System
" I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script. "
Script
Respond
Read
" I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that. "
Look
Words
Think
" It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that. "
Two
You
Two People
" I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it. "
Act
Why
Understand
" 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. "
Big
Two
High
" 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. "
Other
Research
Through
" I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there. "
Out
People
Thought
" Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film. "
Hosting
Infrastructure
Much
" Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real. "
Texture
Feeling
Moments
" One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. "
Family
Humor
Sense
" When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it. "
Death
Middle-Class
Night
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