Top 58 Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

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.

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.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

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

I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

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

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.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.