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But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.

Ben Kingsley

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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Cinema Silence Thinking
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
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Country Song Stars Writing
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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Fischer Knows Want
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs
I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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Acting Cameras Love
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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Believe Female Men Writers
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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Character Play Trying
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
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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Falling Idiot Love Men
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
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Ease Flesh Longing
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
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
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
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 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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Actors Responsibility Wonderful
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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Faithful Long Trustworthy
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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People Style Thinking
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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Actor Change Rhythm
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It’s a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
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Character Fall Thinking
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
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Drama Home Loyalty
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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Character Men Trying
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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Assurance Regard Trough
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

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