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.
BEN KINGSLEYWith narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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You want to know what I want? I’ll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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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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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you’re auditioning for them, every day, and that’s a terrible feeling on the set.
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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.
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I think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
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I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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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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That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
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