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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.

Ben Kingsley

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
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player
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
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
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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Character Men Trying
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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Believe Female Men Writers
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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Age Aging Men
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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Acting Camera Doe
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it’s a science. It’s neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
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Art Fun Thinking
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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Astonishing Hamlet Intelligence
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
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 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
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 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.

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