English - Actor | December 31, 1943 -
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 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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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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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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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.
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As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
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I don't honestly think people know what acting is.
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If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
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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 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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But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
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