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Ben Kingsley

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
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Ease Flesh Longing
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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Creative Creativity Trying
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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Astonishing Hamlet Intelligence
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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Actors Tiptoes Want
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
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Boat Hours Miles
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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Art Fun Thinking
Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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Reality Sometimes Truth
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It’s a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
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Character Fall Thinking
You don’t go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that’s benign conquest. It’s a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
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Culture Landscape Other Play
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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Class Hierarchy London
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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Assurance Regard Trough
My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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Arrive Film Lines Special
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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May Pregnancy Together
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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Hollywood Two Years
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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Cinema Silence Thinking
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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Forgiving Lesson Profound
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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Character Play Trying
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
But filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.
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Allow Crew Filming Good Laughing
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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Actors Stars Yellow
I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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Acting Cameras Love
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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Film Running Wonderful
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
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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Actors Charity Voice

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