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Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.

Ben Kingsley

I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.
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Gains Hands Pretending
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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Class Hierarchy London
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player
There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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Acting Crap Talk
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.
BEN KINGSLEY

Choices Firsts Script
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
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Act Acting Magic Movie
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
There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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Able Play Villain
It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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Hollywood Two Years
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 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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Interview Jobs Reading
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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Acting Film Lazy
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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Country Disappeared Fog Taken
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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People Style Thinking

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.

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