I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
BEN KINGSLEYThere was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
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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 that admirable.
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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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But filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.
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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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The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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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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You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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