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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Ben Kingsley

They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
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
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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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.
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Faithful Long Trustworthy
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
You want to know what I want? I’ll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
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Fischer Knows Want
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
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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Honest Scripts Waiting
I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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Acting Cameras Love
Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.
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Awards Let Go Wife
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
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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Acting Film Lazy
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
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

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