My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
BEN KINGSLEYThere’s so much crap talked about acting.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can’t because they can’t face it.
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We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they’re good actors.
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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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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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There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you’re auditioning for them, every day, and that’s a terrible feeling on the set.
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Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.
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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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I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That’s how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
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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.
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It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
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I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it’s such an extraordinary part of our lives.
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I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.
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I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
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