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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.

Ben Kingsley

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.
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Hunters Jaguar Looks
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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Blood Powerful Real
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
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
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Acting Camera Doe
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Death Friendship Girlfriend Life
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
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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Character Men Trying
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
I hope I’m able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I’m reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That’s what I’d like to do.
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Camera Exercise Focus
If it’s a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it’s usually a reaction to something else.
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Actor Attractive Layer Probably
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
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
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
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Falling Idiot Love Men
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs
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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People Style Thinking

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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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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