Ralph Fiennes Quotes

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire: the desire of the director and the desire of the audience, even if it's a subconscious desire. If a director is to work with you for two months, he must be in love with you in some way or another.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.