Ben Kingsley quotes - page 3

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)
But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh. View quote
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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. View quote
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The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience. View quote
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I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was. View quote
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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. View quote
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Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries. View quote
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I'm holding a mirror to the audience and telling them there is a violent person in all of us. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ben Kingsley

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Occupation: English Actor
Born: December 31, 1943
Quotes count: 59
Wikipedia: Ben Kingsley

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