Top 58 Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

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.

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.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

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

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

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

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

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

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 not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.