The best Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

I didn't think Voldemort was that human. He was the essence of evil.

My sister has children who have been around 10, 11, 12 and I said, "Marth, I don't know about this Voldemort."
"What? You're being asked to play Voldemort? You've got to do it!"

I can't understand the vitriol directed at J.K. Rowling. I can understand the heat of an argument, but I find this age of accusation and the need to condemn irrational. I find the level of hatred that people express about views that differ from theirs, and the violence of language towards others, disturbing.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

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

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

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

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

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

I have experimented; I have pushed the boundaries of magic further, perhaps, than they have ever been pushed.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Dumbledore: "It was foolish to come here tonight, Tom. The Aurors are on their way."
Voldemort: "By which time I shall be gone, and you will be dead!"

Come out, Harry... come out and play, then it will be quick. It might even be painless, I would not know, I have never died.

Wormtail, I need someone with brains, someone whose loyalty has never wavered, and you unfortunately fulfil neither requirement.

And then I ask myself, but how could they have believed I would not rise again? They, who knew the steps I took, long ago, to guard myself against mortal death? They, who had seen proofs of the immensity of my power in the times when I was mightier than any wizard living?

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best-laid plans.

Don't be a fool. Better save your own life and join me... or you'll meet the same end as your parents... they died begging me for mercy.

The legacy of these movies is that my children's generation will show them to their children. So, you could be watching them in 50 years' time, easy. I'll not be here sadly, but Hagrid will.

Emma obviously looked very beautiful in her dress, and me and Rupert looked like Austin Powers' mates.

I was always adamant that Hogwarts should feel like a world that shouldn't exist in reality.

If your dad is a psychopath wielding a cobra cane about, you're probably not gonna be the friendliest geezer.

They probably made their jobs harder for themselves by letting us have as much fun as we had, because it distracted us from the work we were supposed to be doing.

When things get really dark and times are really hard, there's something about Harry Potter that makes life richer.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

The dedication of this book is split seven ways: To Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right!

The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable.

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

We think too much and feel too little.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.