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 KINGSLEYYou 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.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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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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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But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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I’m open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.
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I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
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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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I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.
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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 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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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise 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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I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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