As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller,… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Shakespeare villains were extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard III... They're so richly layered that a British actor would find it almost impossible to… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing.… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story.… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
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… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter.… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share
