Ben Kingsley Quotes

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Ben Kingsley

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 31, 1943

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

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I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

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With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

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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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When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

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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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I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

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I have never felt bereft of anything.

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I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

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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 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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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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I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

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