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
scripts
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
heart school character
I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
responsibility successful people
Success is all about being able to extend love to people. The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it.
challenges world fantasy
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.
reading shanghai
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
father would-be events
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
feelings ive-learned distrust
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
cutting thinking ideas
It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with this." Sometimes it cuts right across your instinct and that's when I might resist. Even if the director might be insistent, I think it's very important to say, "Look, I'm not feeling this. I'll try to make it work but I got to let you know."
belief film audience
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
nice clear-direction giving
It's not great if someone gives you sort of bland praise without giving you clear direction and say, "This is good, let's try it like this." I have worked with someone who seemed quite inarticulate and just would say, "That's good, that's good." That's very frustrating because - it's nice to know something is good but you know it can always change.
real feelings littles
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
unexpected process situation
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
moving people focus
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!"
acting things-to-do neurotic
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.