"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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"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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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

Cillian Murphy, Irish Actor

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"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."

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"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."

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"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

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"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

Frances McDormand, American Actress

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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut."

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"You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there."

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"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."

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

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"I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym."

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"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."

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

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"I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there."

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"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face."

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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."

"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."

"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

"There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that."

"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut."

"You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there."

Explore more quotes by Ralph Fiennes

"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."

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

"I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym."

"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."

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

"I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there."

"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face."

"You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about."

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

"It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that."