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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

Ben Kingsley

As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actors Possibility Risk
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
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
BEN KINGSLEY

Cinema Directors Player
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Film Running Wonderful
I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting Cameras Love
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Director Feelings Skills
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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Different Shapes Size
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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Age Aging Men
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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Family Internet Love Skype Telephone You
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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May Pregnancy Together
Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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Reality Sometimes Truth
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn’t there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can’t.
BEN KINGSLEY

Ends Knows Rhythm
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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Boat Hours Miles
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That’s how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
BEN KINGSLEY

Father Son Uplifting

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

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