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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

Ben Kingsley

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
Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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Reality Sometimes Truth
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
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Country Song Stars Writing
There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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Able Play Villain
I hope I’m able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I’m reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That’s what I’d like to do.
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Camera Exercise Focus
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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Character Play Trying
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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May Pregnancy Together
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
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Accurate Exercise Voice
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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Assurance Regard Trough
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
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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Faithful Long Trustworthy
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

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

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