I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
BEN KINGSLEYIt’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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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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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.
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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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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
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That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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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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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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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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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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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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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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Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It’s impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It’s a very important question: no acting.
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