Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn’t there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can’t.
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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My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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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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You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.
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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it’s such an extraordinary part of our lives.
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I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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I have never felt bereft of anything.
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There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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In England, it’s now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It’s not even on my passport anymore. They’ve taken Mister away from me.
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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I’m so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I’m very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.
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