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.
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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
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