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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

Ben Kingsley

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting Film Lazy
I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Children People Thinking
As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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Actors Possibility Risk
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
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
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
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
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
When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.
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Men Play Roles
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
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Honest Scripts Waiting
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
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
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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Hollywood Two Years
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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Age Aging Men
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
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

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