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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

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
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
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
There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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Acting Crap Talk
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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Character Play Trying
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.
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Actors Responsibility Wonderful
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
You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.
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Musical Term Trying
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
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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Cinema Silence Thinking
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
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.
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Fischer Knows Want
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.
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Actors Tiptoes Want
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
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Forgiving Lesson Profound
I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can’t because they can’t face it.
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Believe Female Men Writers

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.

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