Top 58 Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

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.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

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.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.