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 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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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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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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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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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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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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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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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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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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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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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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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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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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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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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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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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