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I hope I’m able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I’m reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That’s what I’d like to do.

Ben Kingsley

They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting Actor People
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
BEN KINGSLEY

Class Hierarchy London
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
BEN KINGSLEY

Honest Scripts Waiting
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
BEN KINGSLEY

People Style Thinking
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
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Forgiving Lesson Profound
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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Hollywood Two Years
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
BEN KINGSLEY

Children Empowering Needs
I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can’t because they can’t face it.
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Believe Female Men Writers
I’m so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I’m very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.
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Directors Energy Giving
There’s so much crap talked about acting.
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting Crap Talk
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it’s a science. It’s neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
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Art Fun Thinking
If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
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Fish Play Tank Three
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it’s such an extraordinary part of our lives.
BEN KINGSLEY

Children Thinking Trying
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
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Actors Responsibility Wonderful
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work

I hope I’m able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I’m reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That’s what I’d like to do.

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I hope I’m able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I’m reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That’s what I’d like to do.

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