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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.

Ben Kingsley

I have never felt bereft of anything.
BEN KINGSLEY

Anything Bereft Felt
You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.
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Musical Term Trying
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player
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
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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Character Play Trying
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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Culture Landscape Other Play
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 think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That’s how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
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Father Son Uplifting
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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Film Light Profound
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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Film Running Wonderful
When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.
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Men Play Roles
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
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Acting Camera Doe
If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.
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Choices Long Wish
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
There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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Acting Crap Talk
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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Curve Name Thinking

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