Quotes

Ralph Fiennes

"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."

"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."

"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 humour."

"Everybody's a mad scientist and life is their lab. We're all trying to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." 

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

"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."

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

"I have no regrets." 

I have grown up loving Shakespeare." 

"Our life is nothing but a boat adrift on water balanced by permanent uncertainty."