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 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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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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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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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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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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I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.
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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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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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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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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.
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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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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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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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I have never felt bereft of anything.
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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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