There’s so much crap talked about acting.
BEN KINGSLEYI try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That’s how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
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The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It’s a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.
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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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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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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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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
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I didn’t go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.
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You want to know what I want? I’ll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
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I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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