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
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
I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
If you are a libertine, if you're not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else.… — 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
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
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
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
