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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

Ben Kingsley

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.
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Awards Let Go Wife
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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Acting Film Lazy
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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Acting might Thinking
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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May Pregnancy Together
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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Assurance Regard Trough
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.
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Choices Firsts Script
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
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Death Friendship Girlfriend Life
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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Actors Responsibility Wonderful
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
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People Style Thinking
Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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Reality Sometimes Truth
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
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Country Song Stars Writing
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
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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Drama Home Loyalty
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player

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