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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

- Ralph Fiennes

Hosting, Infrastructure, Kenya

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

- Ralph Fiennes

Woman, Tension, Wanting, Overly

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

- Ralph Fiennes

Two People, Just, Prescribe, Energies

I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

- Ralph Fiennes

Grateful, Big, Weeks, Two Weeks

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

Empathy, Devil, Alive, Aphrodisiac

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

- Ralph Fiennes

Very, Which, Lot, Mount

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

- Ralph Fiennes

Younger, Like, Committed, Disillusioned

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

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Will, Be Real, Filming, Real Problems

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

- Ralph Fiennes

Days, Well, Very, Impulse

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

- Ralph Fiennes

Think, I Think, Dialect, Struggle

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

- Ralph Fiennes

Admire, Created, Harry, Potter

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

- Ralph Fiennes

Brilliant, Sets, Were, Potter

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

- Ralph Fiennes

Middle-Class, Soothing, Packaged

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

- Ralph Fiennes

Meant, Playing, Which, Meant To Be

I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

- Ralph Fiennes

Never, Fit, Very, Weights

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

- Ralph Fiennes

Simple, Shake, Bound, Conversation

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

- Ralph Fiennes

Some, Very, Read, Serial

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

- Ralph Fiennes

Habits, Very, Claustrophobic, Rituals

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

Through, Access, Other, In The End

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

- Ralph Fiennes

Informed, May, Using, Push

I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

- Ralph Fiennes

Respond, Part, Read, Intuitively

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

Father, Big, Going, Big Event

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

- Ralph Fiennes

Love, Thought, Never, Surprised

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.

- Ralph Fiennes

Test, Movie, Which, Shoot

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

- Ralph Fiennes

Offer, Lot, Would, Odd

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

- Ralph Fiennes

Lot, Certainly, Gained, Shanghai

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

- Ralph Fiennes

Patience, Gardening, Tender, Nurturing

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

- Ralph Fiennes

Loving, Grown, Up, Shakespeare

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

- Ralph Fiennes

Book, Want, Films, Rooted

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

- Ralph Fiennes

Process, Within, Filming, Situations

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