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.
From Ralph Fiennes
I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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.
What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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.
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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