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
enlightenment chaos force
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
opportunity different potters
It's thrilling to have the opportunity to work in different areas, whether it's on a project that has all the resources behind it like Harry Potter or James Bond and then to go somewhere there's very few resources.
weight fit heavy
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
simple theatre speech
In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.
guy weight bodybuilder
I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
years two way
And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
grateful two expectations
I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
research scene
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.
kenya film infrastructure
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.
editing psychology magic
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.
firsts language film
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
awkward firsts
When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
felt
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
real being-real might
Voldemort? That might be real.