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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: 61
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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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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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 went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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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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I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
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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 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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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.
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