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Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
Ben Kingsley
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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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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
Ben Kingsley
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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 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.
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I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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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.
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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.
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It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
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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've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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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.
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