174 Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor’s faces there’s point where they’re not managing their performance and that’s, I think, the best place to be. You’ve done the homework, you’ve learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.

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.

I’m more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.

News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising...

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.

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.

I don’t feel I’m playing villains all the time.

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.

I’ve never felt fallow in the sense that there’s been no work.