Ben Kingsley Quotes
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.
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I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.
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I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.
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But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.
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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
