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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.

Ben Kingsley

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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Interview Jobs Reading
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
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
I’m open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.
BEN KINGSLEY

People Speak World
As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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Actors Possibility Risk
Equal partners aren’t always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
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Different Shapes Size
I don’t want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.
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Actors Tiptoes Want
Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It’s impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It’s a very important question: no acting.
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Blood Powerful Real
You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.
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Musical Term Trying
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
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it’s a science. It’s neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
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Art Fun Thinking
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible
There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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Able Play Villain
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
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 think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
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Destiny Stories 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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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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