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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it’s packaged as the Night Out, then that’s the death of it. Ralph Fiennes Read Quote
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I’d choose theater. Ralph Fiennes Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn’t do it very well. Ralph Fiennes Read Quote
