Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
BEN KINGSLEYThe hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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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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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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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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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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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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As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.
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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 would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
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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 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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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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