Ben Kingsley

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script…

— Ben Kingsley

You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest.…

— Ben Kingsley

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

— Ben Kingsley

Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.

— Ben Kingsley

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

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

— Ben Kingsley

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

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

— Ben Kingsley

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

— Ben Kingsley

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as…

— Ben Kingsley

I don't do anything that would ever come across as advice or suggestion, but it's just part of a debate. Like, "I…

— Ben Kingsley

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

I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with…

— Ben Kingsley

I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of…

— Ben Kingsley

What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones…

— Ben Kingsley

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has…

— Ben Kingsley

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

— Ben Kingsley

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of…

— Ben Kingsley

There's so much crap talked about acting.

— Ben Kingsley

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I…

— Ben Kingsley

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened…

— Ben Kingsley

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

— Ben Kingsley

I'm open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can…

— Ben Kingsley

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

I have never felt bereft of anything.

— Ben Kingsley