Ben Kingsley Quotes

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Ben Kingsley

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 31, 1943

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

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In cinema, the leading player is the director.

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But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

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Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

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The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

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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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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

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I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

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If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

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When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

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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.

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I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

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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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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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But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

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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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There's so much crap talked about acting.

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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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As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

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