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

Ben Kingsley

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Acting

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.

BEN KINGSLEY

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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Directors
The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It’s a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

BEN KINGSLEY

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It’s a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.
BEN KINGSLEY

Hunters Jaguar Looks
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

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

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

BEN KINGSLEY

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

BEN KINGSLEY

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.
BEN KINGSLEY
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.

BEN KINGSLEY

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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Assurance Trough
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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Scripts Waiting
I’m open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.

BEN KINGSLEY

I’m open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.
BEN KINGSLEY
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
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Actors
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

BEN KINGSLEY

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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Trying
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.

BEN KINGSLEY

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.
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Choices Firsts
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.

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
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.

BEN KINGSLEY

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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Director Feelings Skills
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Empowering Needs
In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn’t care what the audience think of you. That’s not why you are there. You mustn’t care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.
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Order
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

BEN KINGSLEY

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

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