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"I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."
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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
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"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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Explore more quotes by Ralph Fiennes
"I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research."
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"In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time."
Time
"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."
Power
"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."
Ideas
"There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming."
People
"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."
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"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."
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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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"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."
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"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
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