Ben Kingsley Quotes

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

Ben Kingsley

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• As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Important
  • History
  • Think

• I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • May
  • America
  • You

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• My awkward stage extended well into high school.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • Word

• I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • School
  • Way

• I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • World
  • Hate
  • Support

• I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Why
  • History
  • Architecture

• I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Energy

• One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • People
  • Water
  • Architecture

• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Change
  • Only
  • Inevitable

• I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Money
  • Government
  • Promise

• She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Important
  • Speak
  • Message

• As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Good
  • Want
  • Artist

• We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Balance

• My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Silly

• I am definitely going to college!

  

  Adam Hicks
  • College
  • Going

• Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Long
  • Writing

• When there's a great horror movie, people are like, 'Horror's back!' And when there's a series of not so good ones, 'Horror's dead.' I think it's all about the quality. When there are one or two good horror movies in a row, people come out interested again.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Motivated
  • Clear
  • Accomplish

• Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • Movie
  • Magic