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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.

Ben Kingsley

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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Choices Firsts Script
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs
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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Actors Charity Voice
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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Acting might Thinking
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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Hollywood Two Years
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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Art Fun Thinking
As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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Actors Possibility Risk
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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Actor Change Rhythm
Equal partners aren’t always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
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Different Shapes Size
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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Acting Film Lazy
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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Gains Hands Pretending
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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Awards Let Go Wife
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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Couple Drama Job
There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you’re auditioning for them, every day, and that’s a terrible feeling on the set.
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Director Feelings Skills
I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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Acting Cameras Love

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 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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