black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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 KINGSLEY

Faithful Long Trustworthy
You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.
BEN KINGSLEY

Musical Term Trying
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
BEN KINGSLEY

Cinema Directors Player
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
BEN KINGSLEY

Behaviour Character Roots
I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
BEN KINGSLEY

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

May Pregnancy Together
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting Film Lazy
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it’s a science. It’s neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
BEN KINGSLEY

Art Fun Thinking
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.
BEN KINGSLEY

Country Disappeared Fog Taken
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
BEN KINGSLEY

Approach Job Thinking
There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
BEN KINGSLEY

Able Play Villain
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
BEN KINGSLEY

Character Play Trying
There’s so much crap talked about acting.
BEN KINGSLEY

Acting Crap Talk
The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
BEN KINGSLEY

Age Aging Men
You don’t go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that’s benign conquest. It’s a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
BEN KINGSLEY

Culture Landscape Other Play
I’m so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I’m very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.
BEN KINGSLEY

Directors Energy Giving

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ben Kingsley Quotes