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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

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
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
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I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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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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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.
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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.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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People fear they won’t get what they want.
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We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.
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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!
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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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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
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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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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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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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