British - Actor | December 22, 1962 -
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
Ralph Fiennes
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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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.
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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.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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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.
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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.
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There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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