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

Ben Kingsley

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.

    When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. Download This Image

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

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

    Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - I’ve met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them. Download This Image

    I’ve met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.

    Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs – so I’m totally immune. I live in a bubble.

    I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs – so I’m totally immune. I live in a bubble.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - There 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.

    There 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.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! Download This Image

    The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - 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.

    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.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn’t care what the audience think of you. That’s not why you are there. You mustn’t care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.

    In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn’t care what the audience think of you. That’s not why you are there. You mustn’t care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

    Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

    The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate. Download This Image

    I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child. Download This Image

    I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

    I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

    If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - 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.

    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.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. Download This Image

    There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

    John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

    BEN KINGSLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Kingsley Quote - I have never felt bereft of anything.

    I have never felt bereft of anything.

    BEN KINGSLEY