The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
BEN KINGSLEYHopefully, 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.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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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I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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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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We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they’re good actors.
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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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I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it’s such an extraordinary part of our lives.
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I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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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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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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I’m open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.
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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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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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It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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