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
hate thinking keys
Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
empathy devil alive
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
people suffering needs
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
writing people serial-killer
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
acting things-to-do neurotic
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
book character addiction
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.
humanitarian impulse wells
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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.
character trying acting
So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
real feelings littles
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
beautiful people kilimanjaro
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
patterns habit very-good
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
kenya film infrastructure
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
book want film
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.