Ralph Fiennes Quotes

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

Al Pacino never looks like he's being filmed.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

I didn't study interviews. I studied acting.

These are rare moments in an actor's life, where you're put in an environment which is so natural, and you get natural performances.

In film, there are always things that could conceivably create artificiality in any performance.

I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting.

I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.

It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.

Ultimately, cinema is an actor's medium.

If there's a scene in which I need to cry or emote heavily, I just take care of it during the dubbing sessions.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a new thing in Hollywood then and Marlon Brando had gotten through and Montgomery Clift had gotten through and James Dean but beyond that there wasn't really anybody.

As an actor, you generally want to see the other actor's face.

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. I like the craft of acting. It sounds geeky when I say it, but it's true.