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.
BEN KINGSLEYI would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
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I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
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In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn’t care what the audience think of you. That’s not why you are there. You mustn’t care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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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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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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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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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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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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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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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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As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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