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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.

Ben Kingsley

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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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  But filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.

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  There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.

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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 that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

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  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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  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.

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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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  In England, it’s now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It’s not even on my passport anymore. They’ve taken Mister away from me.

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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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