Ben Kingsley Quotes
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
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Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.
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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
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Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
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I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.
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Monetarism is dead and the alien doctrines of Friedman and Hayek remain only to be buried.
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An engineer's invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.
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Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.
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Being Latino and being an actor has been a unique struggle and opportunity. When you don't fit into what may be a more stereotypical vision of somebody whose name is Pedro is, it can be a little bit harder to navigate.
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
