I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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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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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There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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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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I’m convinced that had I not changed my name, I don’t think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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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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In England, it’s now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It’s not even on my passport anymore. They’ve taken Mister away from me.
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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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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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When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.
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I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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