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

Ben Kingsley

As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
BEN KINGSLEY

Actors Possibility Risk
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
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Country Song Stars Writing
Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.
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Awards Let Go Wife
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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Acting might Thinking
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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Actors Theatre Years
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Children Empowering Needs
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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Children Thinking Trying
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anything Bereft Felt
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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Different Shapes Size
Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
BEN KINGSLEY

Reality Sometimes Truth
They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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Acting Actor People
I didn’t go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.
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Couple Drama Job
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
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Children Fantasy Remember
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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Cinema Directors Player
When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.
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Men Play Roles
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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Choices Firsts Script

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