As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
BEN KINGSLEYI’m open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It’s impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It’s a very important question: no acting.
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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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It’s Sir Ben. I’ve not been a Mister for two years.
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I don’t want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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I have never felt bereft of anything.
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I didn’t go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.
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But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.
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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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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 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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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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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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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.
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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