My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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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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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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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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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.
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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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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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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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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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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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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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I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That’s how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
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