Ralph Fiennes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.”
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“Like anything to do with trust, in any relationship it emerges and just the chemistry, vibe between two people [an actor and a director]. You just know whether this is someone I like to be with whose interaction with me I believe in.”
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“There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.”
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“Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.”
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“Success...Is all about being able to extend love to people...not in a big capital-letter sense but in the everyday; little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word”
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“I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that.”
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“...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work...We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.”
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“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.”
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“You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.”
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“I should say, a piece of advice that was given to me very early on by the principle of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) which is where I went. When he auditioned me, he said, "Your speech, monologue, is fine. It's good. Yeah, I think you have ability but you're making it happen. Don't make it happen, let it happen." And that's a sort of subtle shift I think, as an actor.”
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“If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.”
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“Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.”
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“God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.”
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“The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there."”
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“Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.”
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“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."”
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“Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most”
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“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.”
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“I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.”
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“I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. There's an initial point in the editing, if you're directing yourself, especially in my case, where you go, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, I can't watch this." And then, there's a point where you become hard-nosed and just take your neurosis away and go, "What's working? That's okay. That's okay. We can lose that, and lose that." You get objective about it.”
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“We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us.”
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“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.”
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“I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.”
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“I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.”
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“When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.”
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“I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.”
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“I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.”
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“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.”
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“The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.”
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“Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.”
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