Quotes By Ben Kingsley

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

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.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

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

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.

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.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.

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 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.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

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.

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.

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!

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I have never felt bereft of anything.

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

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.

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

There's so much crap talked about acting.

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.

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