If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.
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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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn’t there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can’t.
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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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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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I’m so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I’m very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.
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My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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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.
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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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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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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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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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