I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
BEN KINGSLEYThe hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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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I didn’t go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.
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I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
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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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I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.
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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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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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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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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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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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I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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If you are a libertine, if you’re not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It’s like the person who knows they’re not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.
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