I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
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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There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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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’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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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
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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 would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
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You want to know what I want? I’ll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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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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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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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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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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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 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.
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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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I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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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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Equal partners aren’t always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
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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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I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs – so I’m totally immune. I live in a bubble.
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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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I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.
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If 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.
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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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