Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work...We're all so connected. We can't spend every second… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that,… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that,… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I think I feel more like you're an actor for hire and you take the jobs you want to take, obviously, and some pay… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think,… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image