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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

Ben Kingsley

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
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Death Friendship Girlfriend Life
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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Honest Scripts Waiting
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
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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Film Light Profound
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.
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People Style Thinking
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
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Children Fantasy Remember
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
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 have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
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
If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
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Fish Play Tank Three
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Children People Thinking
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

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