Cinema Quote by Ben Kingsley

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

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We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

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When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats…

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There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.

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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…

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Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing.…

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But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

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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 are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being…

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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found…

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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

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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…

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If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to be on board. I think anything that resonates with history, as does The Jungle Book and Watership Down, reflects patterns of behavior, power struggles, deprivation, migration, survival, joy, love, betrayal, and all of these things. It's…

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