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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.

Ben Kingsley

I didn’t go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.
BEN KINGSLEY

Couple Drama Job
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Interview Jobs Reading
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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Film Running Wonderful
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
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 don’t want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actors Tiptoes Want
If you are a libertine, if you’re not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It’s like the person who knows they’re not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.
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Faithful Long Trustworthy
I think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
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Destiny Stories Thinking
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
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Accurate Exercise Voice
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
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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Alive Singers Thieves
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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Creative Creativity Trying
If it’s a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it’s usually a reaction to something else.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actor Attractive Layer Probably
My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
BEN KINGSLEY

Arrive Film Lines Special
I’m so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I’m very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.
BEN KINGSLEY

Directors Energy Giving
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting might Thinking

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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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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