Ralph Fiennes

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."