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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 Kingsley

They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting Actor People
Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It’s impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It’s a very important question: no acting.
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Blood Powerful Real
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 think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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Class Hierarchy London
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.
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Children People Thinking
I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.
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Gains Hands Pretending
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
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’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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Curve Name Thinking
You don’t go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that’s benign conquest. It’s a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
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Culture Landscape Other Play
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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Able Play Villain
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs
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
But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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Comedy Human Possible

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.

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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.

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