My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive. — 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
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
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end… — 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
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
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 Image
There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
