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 KINGSLEYI 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.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn’t there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can’t.
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The 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.
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
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There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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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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You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
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There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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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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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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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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