Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennesis an English actor. A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 December 1962
CityIpswich, England
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I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theater, 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'm an avid reader of magazines like The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books , ... Sometimes they have articles about what big corporations are up to.
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Justin isn't going to respond angrily ... he's going to carefully say, 'What was she doing?
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Fernando has a particular shooting style, ... which you might call guerrilla or documentary. He wants to avoid anything that smacks of a camera setup. It's as if the street informs the camera.
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When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, you're ready to feel shocked and some degree of shame, coming in as a rich westerner.
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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
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...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 of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.
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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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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
relationship
When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.
jobs mean playing-yourself
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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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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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.