Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
BEN KINGSLEYMillions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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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I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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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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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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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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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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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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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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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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Equal partners aren’t always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
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But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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