I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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.
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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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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 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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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of 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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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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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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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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I didn’t go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.
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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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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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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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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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