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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

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
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
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
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
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 try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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Creative Creativity 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.
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Choices Firsts Script
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don’t have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.
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Family Internet Love Skype Telephone You
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.
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People Speak World
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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Hollywood Two Years
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
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
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.
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Director Feelings Skills
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
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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Interview Jobs Reading
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
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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Cinema Silence Thinking
If it’s a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it’s usually a reaction to something else.
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Actor Attractive Layer Probably
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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Actors Tiptoes Want
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
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.
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Father Son Uplifting
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs
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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Actors Responsibility Wonderful
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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Astonishing Hamlet Intelligence
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it’s such an extraordinary part of our lives.
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Children Thinking Trying

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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