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There’s so much crap talked about acting.

Ben Kingsley

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.
BEN KINGSLEY

People Style Thinking
In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn’t care what the audience think of you. That’s not why you are there. You mustn’t care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.
BEN KINGSLEY

Care Order Thinking
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Arms Embrace Villain
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
BEN KINGSLEY

Alive Singers Thieves
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
BEN KINGSLEY

Assurance Regard Trough
Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It’s impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It’s a very important question: no acting.
BEN KINGSLEY

Blood Powerful Real
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
BEN KINGSLEY

Film Running Wonderful
The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.
BEN KINGSLEY

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

Actors Possibility Risk
I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.
BEN KINGSLEY

Gains Hands Pretending
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Drama Home Loyalty
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting Children Thinking
There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
BEN KINGSLEY

Able Play Villain
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
BEN KINGSLEY

Age Aging Men
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

Children People Thinking
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Culture Landscape Other Play
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
BEN KINGSLEY

Character Play Trying
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
BEN KINGSLEY

Identified Wells Wonderful Work
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY

Creative Creativity Trying
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
BEN KINGSLEY

Comedy Human Possible
My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
BEN KINGSLEY

Arrive Film Lines Special
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
BEN KINGSLEY

Hollywood Two Years
Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don’t have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.
BEN KINGSLEY

Family Internet Love Skype Telephone You
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
BEN KINGSLEY

Behaviour Character Roots
You 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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Fischer Knows Want
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Country Disappeared Fog Taken

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