Able Quote by Ben Kingsley

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

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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If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to be on board. I think anything that resonates with history, as does The Jungle Book and Watership Down, reflects patterns of behavior, power struggles, deprivation, migration, survival, joy, love, betrayal, and all of these things. It's…

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