Ben Kingsley Quotes

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
Ben Kingsley

Love, Family, Best

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

Love, Idiot, Making

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

Relationship, Life, Best

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

Character, Find, Play

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
Ben Kingsley

Love, Acting, Fact

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
Ben Kingsley

Great, True, Human

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
Ben Kingsley

Alive, Might, Wonder

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
Ben Kingsley

Risk, Actor, Unless

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

Love, Comedy, Possible

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

Good, Laugh, Getting

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
Ben Kingsley

Work, Before, Comedy

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.
Ben Kingsley

Music, End, Nobody

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
Ben Kingsley

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 meeting that it isn't going to work.
Ben Kingsley

Work, Business, Older

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 was being followed by an invisible film crew.
Ben Kingsley

Remember, Child, Film

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.
Ben Kingsley

Acting, Honestly

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
Ben Kingsley

Job, Rather, Naive

I have never felt bereft of anything.
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

Waiting, Through, Surprise

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
Ben Kingsley

Sense, Tell, Films

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
Ben Kingsley

Great, Acting, Might

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
Ben Kingsley

Love, Father, Two

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 us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
Ben Kingsley

Try, Lose, Child

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
Ben Kingsley

Strange, Keep, Child

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 hard to label things.
Ben Kingsley

Hard, Understand, Try

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: December 31, 1943

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