Ben Kingsley Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Ben Kingsley

  Giving, Energy, Directors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

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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.

  Ben Kingsley

  Children, Thinking, People

  Interview With Brian Linder, www.ign.com. July 28, 2004.

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• The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

  Ben Kingsley

  Character, Men, Trying

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• There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.

  Ben Kingsley

  Play, Able, Villain

  "Ben Kingsley Interview, The Boxtrolls". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

  Ben Kingsley

  Change, Actors, Rhythm

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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.

  Ben Kingsley

  Choices, Scripts, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

  Ben Kingsley

  Friendship, Girlfriend, Life And Death

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• With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

  Ben Kingsley

  Exercise, Voice, Accurate

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• The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

  Ben Kingsley

  Acting, Cameras, Doe

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• 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.

  Ben Kingsley

  Men, Play, Roles

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• I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I'm reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That's what I'd like to do.

  Ben Kingsley

  Exercise, Focus, Cameras

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

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• All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

  Ben Kingsley

  Character, Roots, Behaviour

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• 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.

  Ben Kingsley

  Letting Go, Awards, Wife

  Interview with Reed Tucker, www.esquire.com. March 30, 2007.

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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.

  Ben Kingsley

  Falling In Love, Men, Idiot

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• The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

  Ben Kingsley

  Class, Hierarchy, London

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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.

  Ben Kingsley

  Long, Faithful, Trustworthy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

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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.

  Ben Kingsley

  Taken, Fog, England

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• When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

  Ben Kingsley

  Boat, Hours, Miles

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• I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.

  Ben Kingsley

  Arms, Villain, Embrace

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• 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 Kingsley

  Ends, Rhythm, Knows

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• Shakespeare villains were extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard III... They're so richly layered that a British actor would find it almost impossible to create a two-dimensional villain, if he's explored in his early years or continues to explore his Shakespearean heritage. You can almost not judge them, if they're played really well.

  Ben Kingsley

  Years, Two, Judging

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• I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

  Ben Kingsley

  Waiting, Scripts, Honest

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• There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

  Ben Kingsley

  Assurance, Trough, Regard

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2001.

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• I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.

  Ben Kingsley

  Memories, Careers, Numbers

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• As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thieves, Alive, Singers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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