If you are a libertine, if you’re not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It’s like the person who knows they’re not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.
BEN KINGSLEYThere is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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Equal partners aren’t always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
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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 allow the irony to happen.
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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.
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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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My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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I have never felt bereft of anything.
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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 prove that you love somebody.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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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.
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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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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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In England, it’s now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It’s not even on my passport anymore. They’ve taken Mister away from me.
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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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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.
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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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