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 KINGSLEYBut filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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I hope I’m able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I’m reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That’s what I’d like to do.
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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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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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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 have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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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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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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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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I have never felt bereft of anything.
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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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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.
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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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We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they’re good actors.
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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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When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
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