58+ Ralph Fiennes Quotes On Education, Playing Voldemort And Broadway

Ralph Fiennes is an English actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his roles in Schindler's List, The English Patient, and the Harry Potter film series. He has been nominated for an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ralph Fiennes on life, love, education.

Top 10 Ralph Fiennes Quotes

1. Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most
2. When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.
3. Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child.
4. When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
5. 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.
6. When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
7. In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.
8. Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.
9. I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
10. 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.

Ralph Fiennes Short Quotes

• I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
• What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
• I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
• I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
• Voldemort? That might be real.
• Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.
• I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

Ralph Fiennes Quotes About Love

Success is all about being able to extend love to people. The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it. — Ralph Fiennes

I loved doing Harry Potter. I had a great time on that. And I think it's good to have a mix. I think you're learning all the time. — 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

I have grown up loving Shakespeare. — Ralph Fiennes

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word. — Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes Quotes About Film

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

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

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya. — Ralph Fiennes

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward. — Ralph Fiennes

When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot. — Ralph Fiennes

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both. — 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

Ralph Fiennes Quotes About Playing

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

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved. — Ralph Fiennes

I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that. — Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes Quotes About Feel

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 think I feel more like you're an actor for hire and you take the jobs you want to take, obviously, and some pay well and some don't pay well at all but you go on a gut feeling and it's all a big adventure. — Ralph Fiennes

I feel there's so much still to learn about acting. But there is some magic in the capturing of performance and in the process of editing a performance. The psychology of human beings and what's coming through the face... that fascinates me. — Ralph Fiennes

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming. — Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes Famous Quotes And Sayings

...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work...We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can. — Ralph Fiennes

Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures. — Ralph Fiennes

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. — Ralph Fiennes

Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out. — Ralph Fiennes

The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there." — Ralph Fiennes

I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theatre, there's the acting part of acting - and I'm not saying that can't be great - and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul. — Ralph Fiennes

It's thrilling to have the opportunity to work in different areas, whether it's on a project that has all the resources behind it like Harry Potter or James Bond and then to go somewhere there's very few resources. — Ralph Fiennes

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something. — Ralph Fiennes

It's not great if someone gives you sort of bland praise without giving you clear direction and say, "This is good, let's try it like this." I have worked with someone who seemed quite inarticulate and just would say, "That's good, that's good." That's very frustrating because - it's nice to know something is good but you know it can always change. — Ralph Fiennes

We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us. — Ralph Fiennes

I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom. — Ralph Fiennes

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time. — Ralph Fiennes

Like anything to do with trust, in any relationship it emerges and just the chemistry, vibe between two people an actor and a director. You just know whether this is someone I like to be with whose interaction with me I believe in. — Ralph Fiennes

I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued. — Ralph Fiennes

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance. — Ralph Fiennes

It's great to be on a set where there's time and there's focus and there's also a kind of adrenaline thrill on a set where people are saying: "We have to get this shot, we've have to go, we've got to move on!" — Ralph Fiennes

I should say, a piece of advice that was given to me very early on by the principle of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) which is where I went. When he auditioned me, he said, "Your speech, monologue, is fine. It's good. Yeah, I think you have ability but you're making it happen. Don't make it happen, let it happen." And that's a sort of subtle shift I think, as an actor. — Ralph Fiennes

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. — Ralph Fiennes

We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them. — Ralph Fiennes

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!' — Ralph Fiennes

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

It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with this." Sometimes it cuts right across your instinct and that's when I might resist. Even if the director might be insistent, I think it's very important to say, "Look, I'm not feeling this. I'll try to make it work but I got to let you know." — Ralph Fiennes

Life Lessons by Ralph Fiennes

1. Ralph Fiennes has demonstrated that hard work and dedication can lead to success, as he has achieved a great deal of recognition for his work in both stage and film.
2. His performances have shown that it is possible to bring complex and interesting characters to life, and to make them engaging and relatable to audiences.
3. His career has also demonstrated that it is possible to have a successful career while taking on a variety of roles, from serious dramas to light-hearted comedies.