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The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

Ben Kingsley

I’ve met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.
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Careers Memories Numbers
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Death Friendship Girlfriend Life
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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Age Aging Men
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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Character Men Trying
In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn’t care what the audience think of you. That’s not why you are there. You mustn’t care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.
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Care Order Thinking
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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Cinema Silence Thinking
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
Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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Reality Sometimes Truth
There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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Acting Crap Talk
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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Creative Creativity Trying
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 think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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Acting might Thinking
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
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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Father Son Uplifting
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.
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Choices Firsts Script

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

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The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

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