174 Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

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

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

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.

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.

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.