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Shakespeare villains were extr...

Shakespeare villains were extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard III... They're so richly layered that a British actor would find it almost impossible to create a two-dimensional villain, if he's explored in his early years or continues to explore his Shakespearean heritage. You can almost not judge them, if they're played really well.

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In order to inhabit a villain,...

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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If it's a really well written ...

If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

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The leaping Jaguar on the bonn...

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

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Millions of children are disem...

Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

Ben Kingsley 218 quotes

You cannot learn a lesson of p...

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

Ben Kingsley 218 quotes

I think the actor has a tribal...

I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

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That hunger of the flesh, that...

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

Ben Kingsley 218 quotes

When you drop your guard in fi...

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 ...

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

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Hopefully, as I get older in t...

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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I think that various styles an...

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 cinema, the leading player ...

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

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I'm convinced that had I not c...

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.

Ben Kingsley 218 quotes

We are adjusters. We empathize...

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

Ben Kingsley 218 quotes

I didn't go to drama school be...

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.

Ben Kingsley 218 quotes

It is better for me to serve a...

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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You want to know what I want? ...

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

Ben Kingsley 218 quotes

John Lennon and Ringo Starr li...

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

Ben Kingsley 218 quotes

The camera does not like actin...

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

Ben Kingsley 218 quotes

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