Ben Kingsley Quotes

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• The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.
• When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
• I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to…
• Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first…
• I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I…
• I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and…
• Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
• There's so much crap talked about acting.
• That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and…
• You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You…
• The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
• There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
• What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their…
• It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
• The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them…
• I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very…
• We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.
• I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
• In cinema, the leading player is the director.
• John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

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