So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
Ralph FiennesRead
I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
Interpretation
Success comes from following your instincts rather than adhering to a rigid plan.
In this quote, Ralph Fiennes expresses the idea that he does not find traditional career planning to be effective for him. Instead, he emphasizes the importance of intuition and following his inner feelings, suggesting that a more organic approach to one's career can lead to fulfillment and success.
In practice
When giving a speech about career choices, you might say, 'As Ralph Fiennes mentions, following your gut can lead to unexpected success.'
So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.
When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.
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.
Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.
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.
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.
All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.
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