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Ralph Fiennes
British
Actor
Born:
Dec 22
,
1962
About
Film
Just
Me
People
You
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
Ralph Fiennes
Time
Best
You
Other
Able
Somehow
Case
Make
Always
Material
Any
Story
Should
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
Ralph Fiennes
Language
First
System
Out
More
Studio
Studio System
Generic
Commercial
Expected
Act
Film
Things
Second
Third
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
Ralph Fiennes
Struggle
Words
First
Think
Broad
Recognise
Shakespeare
Like
Look
Accent
Dialect
Heard
Get
Then
Start
I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
Ralph Fiennes
Good
You
People
Face
Back
Kids
Threat
Head
Knife
Because
Got
Test
Go
Shoot
Quite
Movie
Which
Actually
I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
Ralph Fiennes
Work
Me
Gut
Go
Just
Plan
Career
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
Ralph Fiennes
Would
Would-Be
About
Something
Stuff
Ideas
Talk
Odd
Lot
Up
Offer
Want
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
Ralph Fiennes
Respond
Intuitively
Part
Read
Just
Script
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.
Ralph Fiennes
Grateful
Big
Harry
Harry Potter
High
High Expectations
Scene
Potter
Weeks
Deliver
Expectations
Shoot
Two
Two Weeks
I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
Ralph Fiennes
Research
Other
Thousands
Only
Scene
Scenes
Through
Had
Read
Got
Go
Times
Interested
Many
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
Ralph Fiennes
Beautiful
People
Thought
Out
Were
Lot
Very
Mount
Which
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Ralph Fiennes
Hosting
Infrastructure
Much
Film
Kenya
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.
Ralph Fiennes
You
Conversation
Together
Humanity
Simple
Those
Someone
Shake
Share
Bound
Because
Hand
Your
Moment
Moments
Suddenly
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
Ralph Fiennes
People
Journalist
Tabloid
Had
Feel
Coming
Lot
Who
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.
Ralph Fiennes
Me
Youth
Father
Big
Would
Would-Be
See
He
Put
Big Event
Jacket
Going
Movies
Event
Film
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.
Ralph Fiennes
Journey
Character
Heart
Cinema
School
Gut
About
Both
Never
Studied
Head
Same
Different
Anything
Theater
Realized
Film
Eventually
Technique
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.
Ralph Fiennes
You
Experience
Yourself
People
World
Job
Imagination
Other
Guess
Bits
Through
Look
Accept
Another
Access
End
May
Being
In The End
Which
Asking
Means
Your
Show
Profession
Actor
Actually
Playing
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
Ralph Fiennes
You
Woman
Sometimes
Free
Relationships
Tension
Attentions
Between
Also
Return
Because
Overly
Go
Maternal
Womb
Want
Wanting
What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
Ralph Fiennes
Art
Me
People
How
Question
Moves
Who
You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
Ralph Fiennes
You
Problems
Will
Dread
Be Real
Real
Real Problems
Filming
I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
Ralph Fiennes
Shakespeare
Up
Loving
Grown
Grown-Up
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes
Good
Rugby
Tried
Never
Very
Play
I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
Ralph Fiennes
Time
Feel
Villains
Playing
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