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I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

Ben Kingsley

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
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you’re auditioning for them, every day, and that’s a terrible feeling on the set.
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Director Feelings Skills
I’m so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I’m very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.
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Directors Energy Giving
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Death Friendship Girlfriend Life
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible
I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs – so I’m totally immune. I live in a bubble.
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Interview Jobs Reading
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs
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
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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Allow Crew Filming Good Laughing
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
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 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
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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Actor Attractive Layer Probably
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it’s a science. It’s neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
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Art Fun Thinking

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

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