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 KINGSLEYThe number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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You don’t go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that’s benign conquest. It’s a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
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I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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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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You want to know what I want? I’ll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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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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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don’t have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.
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There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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I’ve met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
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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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I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
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