Top 58 Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

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.

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

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

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

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.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

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.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.