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 KINGSLEYIf 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.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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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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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn’t care what the audience think of you. That’s not why you are there. You mustn’t care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.
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I’m convinced that had I not changed my name, I don’t think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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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.
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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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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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.
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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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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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I think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
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