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.
BEN KINGSLEYWe are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they’re good actors.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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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When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.
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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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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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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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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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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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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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In England, it’s now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It’s not even on my passport anymore. They’ve taken Mister away from me.
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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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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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My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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I have never felt bereft of anything.
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I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs – so I’m totally immune. I live in a bubble.
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I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
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