Ralph Fiennes Quotes

You have to have some connection, empathy, or chemistry with the person you're playing and playing with.

I believe chemistry is based on the trust between two performers. What actually works is something intangible - being extremely comfortable in each other's presence.

No matter whom I've worked with, they've always created a great bond with me.

What I feel is great acting might be rubbish for another filmmaker. There is no right or wrong way to do it. It all boils down to the trust between an actor and a director.

When it's a good director, you can feel when they trust you when they cast you.

I think it's just a chemistry thing, feeling each other out. The more you play with each other, the better it's going to be.

As I had always said, it takes two people to work hard to create the chemistry.

They [Mike Tyson and Todd Phillips] actually struck up a really pretty incredible chemistry, those two, and I think they really trusted each other.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

Communication is the key to successful relationships.

For me, chemistry is trust. If you have trust you can risk together. It's like a partnership and it means you can have fun together while jumping off a mountain. I have not always been able to get good trust with an acting partner. One of the best was Juliet Landau; I always felt safe with her. Chemistry has nothing to do with physical attraction - that often gets in the way.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

I've had a relationship, a good relationship, with MTV for a long time, and I'd like to maintain that.

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

J.J. Abrams and I met, and we just had this incredible kind of vibe between us.

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. It's not necessarily about falling in love.