174 Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

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 well and some don't pay well at all but you go on a gut feeling and it's all a big adventure.

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!"

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.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

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.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

I loved doing Harry Potter. I had a great time on that. And I think it's good to have a mix. I think you're learning all the time.