There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
BEN KINGSLEYI think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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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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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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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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I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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If it’s a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it’s usually a reaction to something else.
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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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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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As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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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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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
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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.
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It’s harder.
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I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
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I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.
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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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When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.
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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It’s a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
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It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
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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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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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