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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

Ben Kingsley

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
BEN KINGSLEY

Behaviour Character Roots
I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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Acting People Thinking
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
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
My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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Arrive Film Lines Special
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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Class Hierarchy London
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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Allow Crew Filming Good Laughing
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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Age Aging Men
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
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Acting Camera Doe
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
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
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
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
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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Hollywood Two Years
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
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 just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

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