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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.

Ben Kingsley

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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Children Fantasy Remember
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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Couple Drama Job
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
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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Acting Camera Doe
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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Actors Stars Yellow
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 think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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Acting might Thinking
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
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
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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Actors Theatre Years
I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can’t because they can’t face it.
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Believe Female Men Writers
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player
The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.
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Choices Event Numbers
I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs – so I’m totally immune. I live in a bubble.
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Interview Jobs Reading
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Death Friendship Girlfriend Life

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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