There’s so much crap talked about acting.
BEN KINGSLEYThere have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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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!
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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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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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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 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.
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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 don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
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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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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
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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.
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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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I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
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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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You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
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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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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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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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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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If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.
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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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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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