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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.

Ben Kingsley

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
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Fish Play Tank Three
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 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
If you are a libertine, if you’re not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It’s like the person who knows they’re not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.
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Faithful Long Trustworthy
But filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.
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Allow Crew Filming Good Laughing
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Death Friendship Girlfriend Life
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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Creative Creativity Trying
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
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Accurate Exercise Voice
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It’s a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.
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Hunters Jaguar Looks
I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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Acting Cameras Love
I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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Acting People Thinking
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
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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Actor Change Rhythm
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That’s how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
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Father Son Uplifting

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.

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