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.
BEN KINGSLEYYou cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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 have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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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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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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There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you’re auditioning for them, every day, and that’s a terrible feeling on the set.
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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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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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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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There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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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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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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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
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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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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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I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
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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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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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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.
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Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn’t there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can’t.
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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 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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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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