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But filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.

Ben Kingsley

You don’t go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that’s benign conquest. It’s a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
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Culture Landscape Other Play
There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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Able Play Villain
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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Film Light Profound
I’ve met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.
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Careers Memories Numbers
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Allow Crew Filming Good Laughing
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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Directors Energy Giving
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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May Pregnancy Together
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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Couple Drama Job
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
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
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Forgiving Lesson Profound
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Death Friendship Girlfriend Life
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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Class Hierarchy London
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
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

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