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

Ralph Fiennes

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Ralph Fiennes
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: December 22
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Ipswich (parish)
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes
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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.
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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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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.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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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.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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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.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
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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.
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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.
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Voldemort? That might be real.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.
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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
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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.
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