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But filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.

Ben Kingsley

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
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
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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Character Play Trying
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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Actors Responsibility Wonderful
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 have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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Class Hierarchy London
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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Film Light Profound
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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Alive Singers Thieves
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 have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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Assurance Regard Trough
I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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Acting People Thinking
You don’t go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that’s benign conquest. It’s a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
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Culture Landscape Other Play
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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Directors Energy Giving
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.

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