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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

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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Art Fun Thinking
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
If it’s a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it’s usually a reaction to something else.
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Actor Attractive Layer Probably
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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Alive Singers Thieves
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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Character Men Trying
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It’s a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
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Character Fall Thinking
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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Destiny Stories Thinking
I didn’t go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.
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Couple Drama Job
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
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
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
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Drama Home Loyalty
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It’s harder.
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Actors Theatre Years
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
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Film Running Wonderful
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
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

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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