If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
BEN KINGSLEYI 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.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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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I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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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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You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
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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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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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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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As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.
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I’m so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I’m very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.
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Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It’s impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It’s a very important question: no acting.
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That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
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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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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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