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

— Ralph Fiennes

#binds #humor #sense #sense of humor #shared

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. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#alive #aphrodisiac #completely #detached #devil

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

— Ralph Fiennes

#good #great #nurturing #patience #persistent

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#beauty

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#could #each #killing #like #other

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#feel #feeling #i #learned #show

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. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#being #bit #else #ever #hate

I have grown up loving Shakespeare. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#i #loving #shakespeare #up

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. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#access #actor #actually #another #asking

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. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#big event #event #father #film #going