The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
BEN KINGSLEYI have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
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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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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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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.
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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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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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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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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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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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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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I have never felt bereft of anything.
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I’m open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.
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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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