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My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

Ben Kingsley

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
BEN KINGSLEY

Approach Job Thinking
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It’s harder.
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Actors Theatre Years
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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Age Aging Men
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Father Son Uplifting
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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Film Running Wonderful
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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Choices Long Wish
I’m convinced that had I not changed my name, I don’t think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
BEN KINGSLEY

Curve Name Thinking
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
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Death Friendship Girlfriend Life
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
Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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Reality Sometimes Truth
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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Acting might Thinking
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Character Fall Thinking
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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Acting Film Lazy
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
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Film Light Profound

My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

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