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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.
Ben Kingsley
Work
Business
Choices
First
Meeting
Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
Ben Kingsley
Work
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.
Ben Kingsley
Music
End
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
Work
Actor
Comedy
Theatre
Years
But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
Ben Kingsley
Love
Comedy
As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
Ben Kingsley
Possibility
Actor
Risk
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
Ben Kingsley
Now
Wonder
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
Ben Kingsley
Writers
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
Ben Kingsley
Job
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.
Ben Kingsley
Film
Running
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
Ben Kingsley
Intelligence
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
Ben Kingsley
Actor
Being
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
Ben Kingsley
Acting
When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
Ben Kingsley
Man
Play
There's so much crap talked about acting.
Ben Kingsley
Acting