I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
BEN KINGSLEYYou 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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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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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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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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If it’s a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it’s usually a reaction to something else.
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I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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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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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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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.
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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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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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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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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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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.
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