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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

Ben Kingsley

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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Care Order Thinking
As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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Actors Possibility Risk
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Acting Children Thinking
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
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’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
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 honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
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Honest Scripts Waiting
There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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Acting Crap Talk
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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Character Men Trying
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
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Actors Charity Voice
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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Art Fun Thinking
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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Musical Term Trying
You want to know what I want? I’ll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
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Fischer Knows Want
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

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