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BEN KINGSLEYThe many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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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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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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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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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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There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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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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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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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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Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.
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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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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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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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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.
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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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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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I think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
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John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they’re good actors.
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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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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 have never felt bereft of anything.
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I’m convinced that had I not changed my name, I don’t think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
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