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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.

Ben Kingsley

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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Children Fantasy Remember
But filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.
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Allow Crew Filming Good Laughing
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
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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Age Aging Men
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
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
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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Actors Stars Yellow
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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Director Feelings Skills
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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Actors Charity Voice
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It’s harder.
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Actors Theatre Years
Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.
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Awards Let Go Wife
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
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 you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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Acting Film Lazy
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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Hollywood Two Years
The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It’s a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.
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Hunters Jaguar Looks

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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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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