There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
BEN KINGSLEYI didn’t go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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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.
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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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I didn’t go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.
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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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If you are a libertine, if you’re not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It’s like the person who knows they’re not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.
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Equal partners aren’t always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
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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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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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I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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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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