Quotes from Ralph Fiennes

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

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

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

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

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

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

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.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

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

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

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.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

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 don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

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.

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

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

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.

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 couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

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

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

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.