What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it’s a science. It’s neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
BEN KINGSLEYI’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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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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Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don’t have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.
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If it’s a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it’s usually a reaction to something else.
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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.
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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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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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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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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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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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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