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.
BEN KINGSLEYMovie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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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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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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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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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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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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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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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 the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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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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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
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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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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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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.
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