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 KINGSLEYI honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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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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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
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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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There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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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’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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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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Equal partners aren’t always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
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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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You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.
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