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.

Ben Kingsley

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• Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • More
  • Exciting
  • Smaller

• 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.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Irish

• 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.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Star

• I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • God
  • Earth
  • End

• 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.

  

  Gallagher
  • American
  • City
  • Year

• 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.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • World
  • Community

• Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Difficult
  • Situation
  • Very

• Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

  

  Haim Ginott

• I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Dark

• Monetarism is dead and the alien doctrines of Friedman and Hayek remain only to be buried.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Alien

• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Energy
  • Control
  • Mistake

• Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.

  

  James Salter
  • Power

• If you are a Morocco citizen with a dual nationality, if you commit a crime in Morocco you are stripped Moroccan nationality and send to our own country. We can learn from them in that respect.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Country
  • Crime
  • Citizens

• They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Knowledge
  • Access
  • Wikipedia

• 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.

  

  Ben Kingsley