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I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

Ben Kingsley

I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.
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Gains Hands Pretending
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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Actors Charity Voice
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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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
There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you’re auditioning for them, every day, and that’s a terrible feeling on the set.
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Director Feelings Skills
I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
BEN KINGSLEY

Children People Thinking
As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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Actors Possibility Risk
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
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Children Fantasy Remember
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don’t have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.
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Family Internet Love Skype Telephone You
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.
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Children Thinking Trying
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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Camera Exercise Focus
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
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.
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Film Running Wonderful
I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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Acting People Thinking
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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Arms Embrace Villain

I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

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