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.
BEN KINGSLEYIt is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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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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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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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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In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn’t care what the audience think of you. That’s not why you are there. You mustn’t care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.
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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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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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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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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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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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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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