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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.

Ben Kingsley

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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Family Internet Love Skype Telephone You
I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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Acting People Thinking
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
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
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Children Fantasy Remember
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
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Arms Embrace Villain
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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Class Hierarchy London
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actor Attractive Layer Probably
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Drama Home Loyalty
In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn’t care what the audience think of you. That’s not why you are there. You mustn’t care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.
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Care Order Thinking
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
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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Character Play Trying
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
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
BEN KINGSLEY

Alive Singers Thieves

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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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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