But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
BEN KINGSLEYWith narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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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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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What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it’s a science. It’s neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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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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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.
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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.
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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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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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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.
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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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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
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