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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

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
BEN KINGSLEY

Assurance Regard Trough
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
BEN KINGSLEY

Character Play Trying
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It’s a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
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Character Fall Thinking
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It’s harder.
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Actors Theatre Years
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
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People Style Thinking
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.
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Fish Play Tank Three
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
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it’s such an extraordinary part of our lives.
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Children Thinking Trying
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actors Charity Voice
We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they’re good actors.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actor Change Rhythm
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
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
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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Ease Flesh Longing
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Arms Embrace Villain
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

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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