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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.

Ben Kingsley

Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
BEN KINGSLEY

Identified Wells Wonderful Work
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!
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting Camera Doe
In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn’t care what the audience think of you. That’s not why you are there. You mustn’t care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.
BEN KINGSLEY

Care Order Thinking
I’m convinced that had I not changed my name, I don’t think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
BEN KINGSLEY

Curve Name Thinking
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Character Fall Thinking
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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Astonishing Hamlet Intelligence
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
BEN KINGSLEY

Act Acting Magic Movie
I hope I’m able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I’m reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That’s what I’d like to do.
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Camera Exercise Focus
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 KINGSLEY

Character Men Trying
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
BEN KINGSLEY

Country Song Stars Writing
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
BEN KINGSLEY

Accurate Exercise Voice
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
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Believe Female Men Writers
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Children People 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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Choices Firsts Script
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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Fischer Knows Want

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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