Ben Kingsley Quotes
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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.
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As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
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Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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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.
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I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
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The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
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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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But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
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That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
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I don't honestly think people know what acting is.
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I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
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There's so much crap talked about acting.
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There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.
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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
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I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.