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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
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Ipswich (parish)
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
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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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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'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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People fear they won’t get what they want.
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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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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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 guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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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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When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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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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Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most
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Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child.
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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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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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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 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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