The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
BEN KINGSLEYMy line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
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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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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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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.
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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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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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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
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I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That’s how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
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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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I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
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I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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