Ben Kingsley Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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All of us grow.
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Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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Be thou erect, or be made erect.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.
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I think I approach pressure by having discipline and learning to be calm in everyday life. I do this with a daily mindfulness practice and commitment.
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I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.
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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.
