I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
BEN KINGSLEYI 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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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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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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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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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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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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If you are a libertine, if you’re not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It’s like the person who knows they’re not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.
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There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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But filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.
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I have never felt bereft of anything.
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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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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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