Ben Kingsley Quotes

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

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• Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Political
  • Minimum Wage

• First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • First
  • Army

• Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • She
  • Voice

• This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • First

• I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Addiction

• Dance should mean something to you.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • You
  • Mean
  • Dance

• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Game
  • Care
  • Teammates

• Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • You
  • Happiness

• I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Work
  • Career
  • Never

• People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Comedy
  • Stage
  • Show

• As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Long
  • Die
  • Born

• When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Together
  • Change
  • Difference

• America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • She
  • America
  • Political

• I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Looking

• I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Real
  • Think
  • Comedy

• My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.

  

  Jared Harris
  • People
  • Hope
  • Fall

• Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • War
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Up
  • Past
  • Celebrity

• It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.

  

  Tadeusz Borowski
  • People
  • Death
  • Law

• It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • Celebrity
  • Charity