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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

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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Alive Singers Thieves
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
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
I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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Acting People Thinking
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It’s a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
BEN KINGSLEY

Character Fall Thinking
There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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Acting Crap Talk
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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Believe Female Men Writers
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 try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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Creative Creativity Trying
My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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Arrive Film Lines Special
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.
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Choices Firsts Script
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 the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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Cinema Silence Thinking
As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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Actors Possibility Risk
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
I hope I’m able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I’m reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That’s what I’d like to do.
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Camera Exercise Focus

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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