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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.

Ben Kingsley

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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Children People Thinking
Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn’t there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can’t.
BEN KINGSLEY

Ends Knows Rhythm
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 want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actors Tiptoes Want
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actors Responsibility Wonderful
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
BEN KINGSLEY

May Pregnancy Together
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Fish Play Tank Three
I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.
BEN KINGSLEY

Gains Hands Pretending
I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actors Stars Yellow
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

Director Feelings Skills
You want to know what I want? I’ll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
BEN KINGSLEY

Fischer Knows Want
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Art Fun Thinking
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
BEN KINGSLEY

Alive Singers Thieves
The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.
BEN KINGSLEY

Choices Event Numbers
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
BEN KINGSLEY

Hollywood Two Years
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
BEN KINGSLEY

Age Aging Men

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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