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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.

Ben Kingsley

In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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Alive Singers Thieves
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
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Forgiving Lesson Profound
I’ve met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.
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Careers Memories Numbers
I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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Acting People Thinking
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Death Friendship Girlfriend Life
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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Age Aging Men
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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Art Fun Thinking
If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
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Fish Play Tank Three
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
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Ease Flesh Longing
You don’t go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that’s benign conquest. It’s a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
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Culture Landscape Other Play
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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Gains Hands Pretending
I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
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Arms Embrace Villain
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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Actor Attractive Layer Probably

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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