The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
BEN KINGSLEYThey’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they’re good actors.
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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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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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Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It’s harder.
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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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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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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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There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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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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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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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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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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