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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

Ben Kingsley

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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Acting might Thinking
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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Astonishing Hamlet Intelligence
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
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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Ends Knows Rhythm
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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Age Aging Men
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
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Boat Hours Miles
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
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
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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Character Play Trying
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player
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
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Men Play Roles

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