"When I choose a role it's either because……" — Ben Kingsley
"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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65 Quotes by Ben Kingsley
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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…
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Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either…
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I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was…
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I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character,…
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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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There's so much crap talked about acting.
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That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed:…
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You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you…
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The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may…
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There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be,…
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