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We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they’re good actors.

Ben Kingsley

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting Children Thinking
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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Hollywood Two Years
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
As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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Actors Possibility Risk
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’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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Careers Memories Numbers
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
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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Forgiving Lesson Profound
Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don’t have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.
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Family Internet Love Skype Telephone You
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’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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Gains Hands Pretending
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
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Accurate Exercise Voice
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 try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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Creative Creativity Trying
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
BEN KINGSLEY

People Style Thinking
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they’re good actors.

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We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they’re good actors.

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