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As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.

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
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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Film Light Profound
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
As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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Actors Possibility Risk
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
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
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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Choices Event Numbers
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
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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Assurance Regard Trough
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 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
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
I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can’t because they can’t face it.
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Believe Female Men Writers
You don’t go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that’s benign conquest. It’s a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
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Culture Landscape Other Play
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
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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Blood Powerful Real

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