I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It’s a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
BEN KINGSLEYIt is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It’s harder.
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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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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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I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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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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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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I don’t want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.
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There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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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 have never felt bereft of anything.
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