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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

Ben Kingsley

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
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
In England, it’s now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It’s not even on my passport anymore. They’ve taken Mister away from me.
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Country Disappeared Fog Taken
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
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
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
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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Astonishing Hamlet Intelligence
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
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
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
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 think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it’s such an extraordinary part of our lives.
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Children Thinking Trying
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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Choices Long Wish
I’ve met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.
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Careers Memories Numbers
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

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

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