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 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices… — 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 as an acting exercise, it's absolutely thrilling that the focus that we had to bring to each other… — 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
