In cinema, the leading player is the director.
BEN KINGSLEYI honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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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John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
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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.
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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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My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It’s a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.
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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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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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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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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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I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.
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