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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.

Ben Kingsley

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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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  When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

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  It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.

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  I have never felt bereft of anything.

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  It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

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  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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  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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  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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  I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.

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  If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

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  With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.

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  I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.

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  I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

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  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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  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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  There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.

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