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.
BEN KINGSLEYI 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.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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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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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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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The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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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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I have never felt bereft of anything.
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With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
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Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It’s impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It’s a very important question: no acting.
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There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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I’m so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I’m very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.
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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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It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
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