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They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

Ben Kingsley

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Ben Kingsley
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 31
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
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North Yorkshire
Krishna Pandit Bhanji
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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.
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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.
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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
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I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.
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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, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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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.
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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.
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There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
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But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.
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I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
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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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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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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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Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.
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Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.
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