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 KINGSLEYI think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
-
-
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 -
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
BEN KINGSLEY -
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 -
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
BEN KINGSLEY -
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY -
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 -
I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
BEN KINGSLEY -
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
BEN KINGSLEY -
There’s so much crap talked about acting.
BEN KINGSLEY -
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 -
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
BEN KINGSLEY -
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 -
I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can’t because they can’t face it.
BEN KINGSLEY -
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
BEN KINGSLEY -
I think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
BEN KINGSLEY