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I have never felt bereft of anything.

Ben Kingsley

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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Family Internet Love Skype Telephone You
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
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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May Pregnancy Together
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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Culture Landscape Other Play
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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Father Son Uplifting
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
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Ease Flesh Longing
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 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
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
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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Men Play Roles
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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Actor Change Rhythm
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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Choices Firsts Script
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
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Actors Responsibility Wonderful
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
There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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Acting Crap Talk
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 have never felt bereft of anything.

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