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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

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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Awards Let Go Wife
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
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
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.
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Director Feelings Skills
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
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Boat Hours Miles
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
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
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Honest Scripts Waiting
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.
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Choices Firsts Script
I’m open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.
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People Speak World
I 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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Children Fantasy Remember
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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Acting might Thinking
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
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs

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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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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