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There’s so much crap talked about acting.

Ben Kingsley

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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Family Internet Love Skype Telephone You
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Character Fall Thinking
I think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
BEN KINGSLEY

Destiny Stories Thinking
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Choices Firsts Script
We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they’re good actors.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actor Change Rhythm
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 KINGSLEY

Film Running Wonderful
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actors Stars Yellow
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
BEN KINGSLEY

Cinema Directors Player
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
BEN KINGSLEY

May Pregnancy Together
I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting People Thinking
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
BEN KINGSLEY

Honest Scripts Waiting
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
BEN KINGSLEY

Cinema Silence Thinking
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Director Feelings Skills
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
BEN KINGSLEY

Character Men Trying
If you are a libertine, if you’re not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It’s like the person who knows they’re not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.
BEN KINGSLEY

Faithful Long Trustworthy
My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
BEN KINGSLEY

Arrive Film Lines Special

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