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!
BEN KINGSLEYI think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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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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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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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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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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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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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.
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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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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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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn’t there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can’t.
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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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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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I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs – so I’m totally immune. I live in a bubble.
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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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