The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
BEN KINGSLEYThe 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.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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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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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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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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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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I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That’s how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
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There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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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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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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You 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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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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I’m convinced that had I not changed my name, I don’t think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
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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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