Ben Kingsley Quotes

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

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• The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • High
  • Mad
  • Strange

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Uniqueness

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Damage

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • English
  • Mother`s

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Good
  • Music
  • Long

• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Truth Is

• All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Friends
  • American
  • Man

• I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Play
  • Wind
  • Yes

• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Health

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Speak
  • First
  • Face

• Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Different
  • City
  • Awesome

• I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• When it comes to being confused about what to do about life, that's been me and will always be me.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Life
  • Confused

• The best part of performing is the people. I love interacting with people. My favorite part is the crowd. I love rocking out with the crowd, that's definitely the best part.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Crowds
  • My Favorite

• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Career
  • Passion
  • Gift

• I believe in the separation of church and state... We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all... They are all citizens of Minnesota and I have to respect that.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • People
  • Believe
  • Respect

• All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • Great
  • True