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I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

Ben Kingsley

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
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
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Country Song Stars Writing
There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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Able Play Villain
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
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.
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Actors Tiptoes Want
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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Acting Camera Doe
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs
Equal partners aren’t always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
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Different Shapes Size
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 always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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Character Play Trying
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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Camera Exercise Focus
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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Drama Home Loyalty
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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Reality Sometimes Truth
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

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I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

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