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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

Ben Kingsley

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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May Pregnancy Together
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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Astonishing Hamlet Intelligence
I think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
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Destiny Stories Thinking
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
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Accurate Exercise Voice
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
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Ease Flesh Longing
I’m open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.
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People Speak World
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
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
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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Acting Film Lazy
My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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Arrive Film Lines Special
In England, it’s now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It’s not even on my passport anymore. They’ve taken Mister away from me.
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Country Disappeared Fog Taken
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It’s impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It’s a very important question: no acting.
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Blood Powerful Real
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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Able Play Villain

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