My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the… — 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
If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or… — 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
If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I… — 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
