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
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
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 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
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'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
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
I didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with… — 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
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
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
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
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting. — 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
