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.
-
As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
-
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
-
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
-
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
-
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
-
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
-
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.
-
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
-
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
-
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.
-
But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
-
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!
-
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
-
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.
-
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
-
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
-
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.
-
I don't honestly think people know what acting is.
-
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.